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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... majors, in a lengthy exchange of experiences and ideas. Discovering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Do you know what day it is? Well, one year ago, on September 17th, 2013, an excited young blogger published a heartfelt post gleefully ... called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  course eval for 9.00. Please take a moment to do this. http ... due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  because I enjoy life-pondering and expressing it, I’ve also been taking a great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... man read in a very distinct voice quite a pertinent and touching reply

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... was a rich sense of community that developed out of this house and it

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... about being in a country where nobody has electricity or regular access to ... through the city at the latest we'd ever been out here - we've been making a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  spent at least an hour going through a massive checklist of everything in ... -pens, gauze pads, blankets, AEDs, nasal cannulas, and traction splints. Colorful ... arrests but that none of us knew how to revive a dead ambulance. So we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... one I'd put on my "must do" list. Academics are only one part of an MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality, but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained

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

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... , Executive Director of the Education Conservancy. Lloyd Thacker leads a panel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that matter, what DSL is), which I wanted to post here. What do you know ... opportunities to learn about and experience a multitude of things. To complement

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a small ... , each contributing a set of rare skills and perspectives while holding in ... MIT. I have to tell you, this is one hell of a team. Every year I tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . As a result, this was still an incredibly selective Early Action cycle ... year, a difficult decision given how awesome so many of our applicants ... they all do different amazing things - math and music, oceanography and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they belong, but don't stress out over it. McGreggor and I also brainstormed a ... might do the sorting). Here goes... Examples of what might be considered

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  early; providing us a mobile phone number we can reach you at during CPW ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that ... meetings and information sessions. As you might guess, I do many ... application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  blogging before and I think I have a great opportunity. My fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma (aka Skullhouse) has a tradition where the senior class goes on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  summarize, I had a rough freshman fall, as many college students do. At some ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021