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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  , is about to graduate with a course 6 degree, numerous musical accolades ... ranges from jazz standards: To funky arrangements of other classic songs (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  Cambridge, California, or China. Four of the greatest years of your life are ... , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  of California's largest botanical gardens, Descanso, I recently (well ... Pasadena, California. One of the first things that I did this summer was hike ... Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... this carpet sporting a bright “Go Longhorns” shade of orange, and a life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to pretend that temperatures like that don’t exist. Anyways. The point of all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  California over it. It was one of the most serene, yet also one of the ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006