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• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... . Sororities are Greek letter organizations that offer lifelong membership, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  stir fry or salad--both of which are offered nightly, so I'm always ... </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them ... of this post - a few weeks ago, MITblogs got a question from Claire: "I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  ? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  200hz in the unseen hours of the morning. University faded into universe ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... seemed mapped out for me: follow the degree requirements for whatever bio ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental concepts with approaches of process design. Emphasis on problems that demand

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  away from MIT put a lot of experiences into perspective, and applying ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive biases along with Daniel Kahneman) asked 24 of their colleagues

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  genetically modified crops to health science to the internet, the impact of ... science ties into all of it. So far we've just been talking about global ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... courageous for applying, for taking the deep dive and demonstrating your vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time, but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... drive a couple of months back much less painful) and I found some fun

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I ... importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007