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• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  an inferior engineering result simply because you're reluctant to hurt ... .  Partly inspired by Google's Talking Shoe (shoutout to Zach, from the team ... we went. Now we were getting somewhere!  The ADXL345 allowed us to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill ... admissions site is really something, huh? I just look and I see categories, endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first ... the First Year site.
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a ... verge of making a purchase that will someday cause your roommate to leave ... raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  MIT site, you will find the contact information for your MIT interviewer, or ... ’m looking forward to reading your applications!    ... Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... need to take some time to relax and recuperate before getting into the ... who with … if I’m friends with you IRL please check your calendars to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long ... I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... our food stops and border control in-between, it took us 15 hours to get ... .  I kept thinking “wow, this would be a good place to get murdered right

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni ... advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different ... Again, happy 2006 to everyone! Electricity and cable have been

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  the MIT routine sometime. Later that day, we went to get food with a ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... all the time, and along the way, the prototype site was presented to key

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  you're reading this site right now, odds are Ben has touched your life ... the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... moved to a nearby Boston suburb several years back (its site is now home ... this year and in 400 communities. Happy Valentine's Day to you and your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  per week with your supervisor, giving them a lot of time to train you and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to ... different tools in the machine shop, we get to create our own Stirling Engine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  privacy - sites like Facebook are designed to be a community, a playground ... . Admissions officers should get involved in these communities if they want to ... everything; simply limit those parts of your profile to people you approve as

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to change that. Pretty incredible to have most of your friends also be your ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  (One sentence executive summary: If you're willing to support an ... . If you're willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice! The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005