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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT ... class since the Class of 2012 are those whose applications I first ready ... of being on the campus for real. I saw their pleasure as they first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  college students comprise 14% of the admitted group, and 27% are members of ... admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... between early and regular action admissions, meant that only 10.4% of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my cell phone buzzing in my pocket and loading the text message my brother

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... will never see the light of day. And this is something that I’m still ... the ’23 poster were based around optical illusions and tricks of the eye

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... first real interaction with MIT. For a majority of the college process the ... answer the class of 2020’s questions, and Kevin and I got to show up on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  SHAKEN: And that was my New Year's Eve. My first adventure of the new ... and watching Season 2 of Veronica Mars on DVD with my sister while consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of ... are part of the same building and are considered to be part of one dorm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and ... changed everything in a way subtle and inexplicable as the softness of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  intricacies of the process. I chose to design the t-shirt and posters, and I ... chocolate fountains and coating the array of carbohydrates. The chocolate ... , of the band and Amy '09). They played beautifully for three hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  concept could change the direction of the entire term! The professor and ... our first assignment was to perform an "ethnography" of the subway ... who manages all of the information kiosks in the stations), and even a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  mailbox with my heart pounding the whole time. A week passed, and so did the ... constant anticipation, the daily races home, and the deep disappointment of a ... and if they could open it. Of course, I caved in, and thankfully the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... siblings and I looked at him. I was the biggest of us at only 5’4” 110lbs

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  of CPW like the Olympic games, just with more math and fewer sports ... of Trello, Google Sheets, and Slack helps us get the work organized ... few stacks of bleachers, and arrange 700 chairs on the floor of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  my face and how i can see the river stretching out on both sides of me ... Killian Court and hung out for a couple of hours. lying on the grass with the stars over our heads and the dome at the back of our peripheries, we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  first and third line of each stanza repeat as the second and fourth line ... daunting task, but I had time. Denmark was beautiful, and I’d spent the first ... anything, and the first few days in Boston I was too busy catching up on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022