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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... like a chore at first, remember that everything in you application is ... studying at MIT. 2. Yes, we really do look at more that your standardized

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  school in Cambridge, spending very little time at this school which I had ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... very appealing. And, yes, 42% of the population at MIT, as it turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time.” “But I am not cool.”     “I am not cool. Not enough for ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... nice to just do that for a whole weekend without having to worry about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... one of 3 companies that called us back for onsite interviews.  Around ... rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  this situation amusing and are making this post "just for the title ... , our room is actually where Sal Khan lived during his time at MIT! Can ... Katherine C. '19 got us for our birthday! Pay close attention to the bottom

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  makes us into gray sheep (or at least somewhat grayer sheep). For sure it ... sang was a farewell concert for our graduating seniors. Last night we ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  school for at least 3-5 minutes, it's hard to tell whether or not that was ... have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... crossing the river, and you look up to see the dome glowing at you, staring ... will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in ... students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the ... Wikipedia for that ;) - I had a great time watching Dirty Hands. The set was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  systems are actually all around you (and even in you! For example, your ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour ... Investigation- Taught by an assistant program director at the MIT Clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and ... been focusing on that admission decision for months. It occupied my every

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the ... doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... curriculums need to be restructured to give students better avenues for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT ... Hayden for the next few hours.” I hadn’t thought about experiences like ... . At the start, I was definitely too optimistic about how much fun I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... Camp was not at all what I expected. It was both harder and easier than I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  is ai so bad at making hands?[/caption] Recently, I read something by ... the same (and a quick glimpse at Twitter would prove that they ... ’s emotional responses, so I only speak for myself here. I don’t quite see my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... " by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the ... jackets.  So the biggest reason why I've become such a sucker for fall? I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach ... high. I burned my mouth at a tasting of ghost pepper sauce (I said it ... cooked on EC’s very own grills, iconic for being there every single day of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021