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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... Alpha Theta, and Sigma Kappa. Each sorority has a different group of girls

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  . Class has been going well. It's a significant effort commitment, but it ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done ... action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... bought a few other things to go with it and yesterday I had tacos! That was ... other a lot, and it's kind of neat. Meara from across the hall cooks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... and Gabe put on velcro suits and then thrust themselves onto a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• 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…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... talk a lot about FIT & MATCH. Think of your application as you would

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I ... was always like this as a child, although MIT has exacerbated my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational ... admitted to MIT -- both programs admit only a small number of students, while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  against other students! MIT has a really cool Wall Street-style trading ... -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... the world of high finance; it will also serve as a powerful platform for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  still open. Today, I'll highlight a couple programs whose deadline have ... philosophy that "has the potential to make a positive contribution to society ... ,000 as well as significant media attention and a reception in Washington

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to ... style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... (where n is a counting number), we also occasionally have transcendental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions ... 't set any target for that number. We won't have a final count of regular ... ultimate target for admits is this year. A few notes, for the record: Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  classes I've taken here at MIT and 21W.762 is no exception. It's a great ... quietly in a corner as we argue by Cami Mejia (Sestina) Untitled by Dien ... Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... . ____________________________________________________________________________   YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIJXccw9VkEXq7bNNoKlqvA

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  last semester in [annotation note="a product development capstone class ... after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... working with this team; every time we have a deadline, I feel at once that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , but as of recent it feels more like a chore. Every week that passes by ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011