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• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... , or if you never received it, you may call our office to get it (please ... and waitlisted applicants will not see a change.) If you do not wish to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ="52584" /]   Did you finally dye your hair like you wanted to? Get a tattoo ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... running all the way to the Museum of Science by the Charles just to catch up ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... performance by Angels and Airwaves. Biodiesel@MIT has developed a unique ... purchase a solar-powered biodiesel station to make their dream of turning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  listening to a story told by someone who graduated when the current freshmen ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my ... to get a generous seven of the 25 questions wrong and still pass. With ... , I barely scraped by with just enough correct answers to pass. But a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... costume, then searched my room for a fridge, with grand plans to get Thai ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , bowl ban", ESPN "40 Reasons to Still be a Proud Penn Stater," by Onward ... destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... weeks go by and I try to get ready to start working on this assignment. I ... to convey to your audience in a 90-120 second segment of video, a clear

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... , interrupted occasionally by a row of houses or some other sign of civilization

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... 't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... Sapolsky's books A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  get from A to B. The team also made augmented reality animations and an ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we ... drove up to help us clean our room (a dumpster at the time), and to bring

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... for admission to the Class of 2012! By the time I graduate, I will have

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007