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• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means ... to this very exclusive party. It's interrupted by classes and a few ... 's almost like we're not crippled by our social awkwardness! I may be being a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on ... 't had a whole lot of time to be nostalgic, mushy, and all that irritating stuff you don't want to read about (I'm not a philosopher or a romance

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  to get a new video before we absolutely had to make the last bus. (We ... finish off the year by giving you all a full run down of everything that ... Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  creative writing, to make the lessons stick in students' minds. "A farmer ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a ... a trail for other students and earned a scholarship to a prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  mystified by something to understanding it, even just a little. Tristan: The ... get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... fact that what "math" means has changed a lot -- from arithmetic to short

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... about Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is most appealing to a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  to use. I applied to MIT before, so why can’t I make a MyMIT account ... latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  ; today Jason taught everyone how to make an origami butterfly: Brian ... . For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  followed mere moments later by Bao, who decided that there was nothing to ... for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are related to Sam's Mom ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  gone by. Sometimes, you just have to perform. As I make my way through ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT ... pursuits. Crew is a great sport to do if you really, really enjoy it and make ... grammar error. actually, i just wanted to make a new friend. Well, hello

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  it's just any old day and someone's making cookies, it's a tradition to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... language lab, meeting with a fellow EC resident and software developer to put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  . Feel free to propose a topic or question for the blogs—y'all make this ... tourist-y trip was to Target to buy a swimsuit. No regrets there: turns out, a late-night swim leads to the best sleep, so I plan to justify the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  glass by using a lamp to melt it) who made glass eyes, lab equipment, and ... of 50 years by a father and son, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, working ... was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend ... readiness to dream, this made for a working environment one could only dream ... very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... email: "Every year, the Laboratory for Chocolate Science makes truffles to ... , and water = the 3 food groups?) They encouraged us to rub and smell

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006