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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over ... validation is both necessary and appropriate. Where I think the use of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  my freshman year. And just as the skyline looked different at every second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  located above the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets in ... The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... and Circle Center Mall. It is linked by the indoor skywalk to the Hyatt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  the varied assortments of muck and dredge Maseeh Dining serves). Cue to ... minutes of texting and jaywalking and all manner of things that form the ... tumble into the backseat of his car, where my friend and classmate Ava

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , mother and son. At a call, two members of the family had to pick up the ... no idea. It was a night of laughter, and one of the most memorable of ... group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic ... flatten the nodules into circles, thin on the outside and thick in the ... it doesn't leak) repeat until you have lots and lots of dumplings

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their ... founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind ... now) and I have not yet begun studying. That's right, not even looked at the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  " and we discuss the social and ethical implications of present and future ... and I have no exams until after Thanksgiving. The feeling of ... and prioritization of sleep over things like The Internet), it feels

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... population. We went through each of the continents and tried to name all the ... and take a selfie!"]the birthdays of Katie K. ’24 and Justin Y. ’25

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  the most promising future scientists and engineers ahead of time, like ... typically visit the big Faires in Bay Area and New York to give versions of ... mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  , and[annotation note="Those of us in cold climates, anyway. The rest of ... -grade stress of the normal week as I triage and prioritize what I'll actually be ... , but I'm also ready to get back into the rhythm of the week, and I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the ... , Daniel, Mitra, Allison, and Kevin in real life! There will be food (of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  over. The guest bedroom has a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Raphael ... box out of the way, Raphael stuck his hand out and made a noise ... TV and Number Of Couches, and the NRAO headquarters (our office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  lot of ideas through various test and trains of thought, sometimes the ... /review with a professor and TAs. Most of my "notes" are coming from the at ... (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class ... I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one ... count of the days that have walked by but i have stood and stood, and i ... away into a fluff of clouds, above water—rain and lake and sea. the blue

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great ... Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005