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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  The Ass Kickin' Chicken!) Favorite thing about MIT: The Infinite ... college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... studying at MIT. 2. Yes, we really do look at more that your standardized

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  financial aid at Connecticut College. We at MIT are among those college ... sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

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

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  was a lot smaller. From MIT were me, Brandon W. '24, and Alex H. '26 ... mean concentrating?" And he replied, "well, when you talk to MIT students ... -hall" instead of "dining". Gotta say, it's fun to be an MIT student pretending to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  , "All of the MIT-run food places on campus have vegetarian (and usually vegan) options every day. There are lots of vegetarians at MIT! :) Whether ... see is how you are a good match with MIT, and usually how you spend your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season,…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  . I’ve been getting MIT emails saying “please donate 👉🏿🥺👈🏿” which I cannot mentally process. I’ve been an [annotation note="read: Interviewer"]MIT ... ’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y’all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get new shoes for Gatas [explained below] that this would make a great blog post! So I went to snatch my…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  MIT and experience an assortment of campus life and events ... slaves. [-5000 aura] Pants Last weekend, I painted sets for MIT Shakespeare

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  knew was going to be crazy. (Because, to be honest, what MIT semester isn

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where women’s and men’s soccer, football,…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the “big man of the computer space” that we were doing up-goer five,…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about firsts. First bike, first time camping, first best friend… and my first year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  ="term of endearment referring to mit alumni"]cruft[/annotation] stick around ... mit police, and why we do certain things. i wouldn't have thought of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... that existed prior to college applications. Even at MIT, I’ve rarely felt

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  -eyed first-years to run through the town, I want hacks that'll turn MIT upside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  an MIT student. I wouldn’t consider myself graduated emotionally, but ... be graduated from MIT the second I flip my brass rat around. We’ll see ... MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come ... I was here and I affected MIT in ways other than bringing down the ... back when everything went down. I think someone called the MIT police on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020