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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  ’t get an A, I’m still fine with it.” -Azaria Zornberg “Don’t EXPECT to do ... more stuff that you still have to do, you are better off just taking a ... yourself. It may seem counterintuitive to take a break from studying

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was ... they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  a handful of staff on hand to do the processing. Please do not call ... details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of ... school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  just music. We exercise a life lesson. Do what you love and be passionate ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined ... obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  something, I strongly recommend doing a program through the MIT Educational ... several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied ... delicious it is), I forgot about my Saturday morning cartoons a few times and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  open Q&A. We'll take as many questions as we can and do our best to ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... discussed. How do you apply for financial aid? Should you apply for it? What

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

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  " with MIT! ;) 14. Sometime soon, Matt will post a blog about Admission ... . Plan what to do with the Official Copy of the Admissions Letter that will be coming soon to a postbox near you. :) 5,897. Let any of us know if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application ... , Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing ... system is missing something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  few bucks. Should I do an FPOP? Yes. FPOPs are fun, and they're a great ... one from last spring is here. A lot of people at MIT do five ... (perhaps doing a UROP); many students don't spend a great deal of time at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  can do a UROP in HASS. Currently, UROP students are being actively ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how do we answer these concerns? Yesterday, the Admissions Officers had an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... different. I’ve spent a lot of time crying recently.  I have a number of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3/14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  that this is not a feel-good post. i do have many strong opinions on the ... fairly say that i knew Matthew; but i do feel as if i know myself (a bit ... things i’ve told you, we could probably be considered friends. so do me a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021