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• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... from students with something to report. If you're in a school that ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to ... rough sometimes, especially when bounded by fences and a punishingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  . "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing ... my partner to Jojo and we've been watching part 3 together. A quality ... . Regardless, I'm going to work on a little Megaman demo project. I highly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to ... bloggers, blogs were...blogged to. Frosh: Are you excited to be a senior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... . After my brother left, I told myself to make a sandwich and I made my ... after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  a team who wanted to learn how to build an autonomous car by building ... This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT ... and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was ... encouraged me, helped me, and stuck by me as I fumbled my way into a modicum of stretcher grace. A special thanks to Vidya '12, who came in when she wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  done there... which is quite a lot.) As I do not intend to write an essay ... is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen by up to 10 different people. Finally, the Dean herself reviews every

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... by Cole Porter as a response to Oklahoma! The Gulf of Bothnia ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  strong urge to make him soup or knit him a sweater because I just think he ... ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  to have a double with a super-cool freshman, who wouldn't make good use ... walls, they often take it a step further and use their rooms to truly ... MIT yearbook Technique, who is a total pro as you're about to see. I

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

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... . Pyrolysis and biochar. It's a little bit hard to imagine that all of these ... later, I'm seated at Walker Memorial, a gymnasium eternally dedicated to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  what I mean?) Bezel The 2006 beaver is supposed to look a little more ... 's holding a scroll to represent knowledge, and a globe to represent the way ... fundamentally the fact that we were the first class to have A/B/C/no record second

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... drive up to a cabinet while navigating around obstacles and choose a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010