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• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline ... The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  the benefit of the doubt. Eric (MIT Class of 2009) helped out first by writing, "Anon -- MIT is probably one of the most gay-friendly schools I ... legal. The very first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the USA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  friends and being able to hang out with my whole class for the first time ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in ... ring delivery! the class of 2023 dressed up and got our [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take ... love the month of September because it’s the first month of the new year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... at The Atlantic and former professor of mine (he was a visiting scholar

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... and the rush of last minute parents such that by about 9:30, we'd run ... throughout the ceremony would post some pictures of the procession and the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  typically get out of the way your freshman and sophomore year. Then there are ... webcomics (Heartstopper, Lore Olympus, Check, Please!) and a good chukn of the ... -sized and mobile phone cameras and the rise of web-based platforms, such as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  . Afterwards, there was a reception of food, drink, and conversation with the ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture. Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... of lava flowing, exploding, and making "pillows" and streams. After

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  West) run daily during the year and help many of our 24 residents get to and from campus. Though we live in one of the richer parts of Boston ... part of the decade deaffiliated from its national organization and went

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  us download some app called the "CrimZone," the whole purpose of which ... since we haven't gone to any of Harvard's sports events in the first place ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... !!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  was the monkey that I was, 360ing on monkey bars and cartwheeling off of ... an Albertsons parking lot and dislocated my knee. For the first time, I wasn’t whole. Something had gone wrong inside of me. And I could feel it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  . None of our preliminary approaches worked, and we couldn’t translate the ... ." And thus the 3am coding competition was born. First we had to set (sorry ... just one example - and I love it. Yes, the routine of “pset, study

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... , and, well, it's a month later. I woke up on the floor of the blood bank ... wear their hats sometimes, and made fun of me when I try to use the word

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... the structure of elementary particles like protons and electrons, is ... first office beyond the grid of portraits belongs to Frank Wilczek, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  how much I fucked up in the first half of the semester, and one month of ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then ... week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  , we had Fabulous and Lloyd Banks. And the spring of my freshman year, we ... where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely cost of $0 for all the students. This year's lineup included: Chicken

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006