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• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  getting it to coat evenly, add a little more barbecue sauce to thicken (but ... scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Association (the MIT Sailing Club) and their families only, you can't get much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  families only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice ... row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  to varying degrees, but I always felt insulated by the fact that my ... .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... . Certainly students who don't report their ethnicity get admitted to MIT. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  Home Depot to buy paint. We ended up buying the paint "Royal Academy" by ... when we came by to photograph them, so only Lauren is pictured above ... 't seen the movie yet, but I would find it hard to believe that the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We ... prepared to be part of an dynamic MIT community next fall.  

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high ... counselor, your transcript may be submitted by your registrar’s office
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial, climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be ... and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the ... -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  it if it gets too hard because i want to prioritize my other classes ... , the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  -land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old everyday physical objects, starting with "How To Make (almost) Anything" (aka

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  . I need to have everything I own packed and stored by 6 PM tomorrow. Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an ... I was lucky enough this semester to have only one final exam, which I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage ... something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you're considering taking time away from the Institute, or you just don’t know who to