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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  stars you can catch just outside of New York City. There’s the dead ... I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  general Institute funds. Sixty-four percent of undergraduates qualify for ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  watch a video of me speaking at the most recent Maker Faire in New York ... This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  York, you may have seen all of the tourist attractions once a long time ... better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  if virtually) an institution full of students with a vibrant sense of ... the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  -fledged major that is one of many offered by the Electrical Engineering and ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven ... major or minor, Course 6 offers more than its fair share of challenging

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... things. First: some of you may follow alien/human (and MIT PhD student ... world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen of MIT's new president, a big Red Sox winning streak... a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  drove up from New York with (way too many) of my remaining bags and boxes ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018