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• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  about (yet), caught an elevator* to the 6th floor of the Kavli Institute ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  topic you’re investigating, or the societal effects of a technology you ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  mail, but that was back before MIT had the technology in place for online applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... put a lot of stress on myself for not having a job offer in hand. Let ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... ! $100! One of my charms is that I have absolutely no responsibility when

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers ... [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the ... bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my ... create a map of what influenced those opinions that I had a better

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... says a lot about MIT. It says the kind of things about MIT I will be

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  friend Steve '11 (freshman ex-roommate) was reminded of the story of Tim ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would enjoy it. But yeah, that's it. Think of this as some light diversionary

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015