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• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... basically the master of churning out pointless fluff "insightful" essays for ... " orientation of stapling pieces of paper together (the staple should ideally make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student ... ceiling. The dorms of West Campus run the gamut from quiet and introverted

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced ... anything, they screamed even louder. I probably heard about 15% of the actual content of the presentation. However, I don't regret going at all! Part of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  equivalent of the perfect storm which occurred almost exactly twenty years ago ... than three million people lost power by the peak of the storm. Because of comprehensive damage to all levels of the infrastructure, approximately 70% of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in ... , this was the sort of thing that we thought was really really cool. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... after, Lovepop Cards, Revolution of Hope, the Roxbury Youth Orchestra, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  . The Land of MIT. And its inhabitants, the Students, look like this ... homo sapiens. Actually, if you took one person from each of the planets ... up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of the Internet out of an abundance of caution. If you are getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  tap into the wealth of creative gems embedded in all the scientific ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... the other hand, a lot of artists intentionally take a lot of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal ... best known for the transformation of the hyperbolic cosine function into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the ... dinner whenever possible with the residents of the house enjoying the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one ... opportunity to implement all those bad ideas they've had over the course of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for ... suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007