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• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of ... seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow morning. My little brother (well, not so little anymore) is a sophomore ... 're not all dorks... actually, I'm a cheerleader! Yeah, we have a football

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... writes a blog (!) for the admissions office Debbie '06 spent the first half ... of the varsity women's crew team We challenged Debbie '06 to tie a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first ... flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... my winter coat and put away my summer clothes; it's always a semi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the BioMedical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a ... phone came back to life, I had a message from the friend who was going to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  with a fun academic summer program. Many of the best summer programs ... , Entrepreneurship, and Science (MITE2S), which the website describes as "a rigorous ... , and Caltech -- which the website describes as "a rigorous academic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  stories and tips. My team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be, written for a large audience with widespread interests. Great for getting a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a ... area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt ... than if I had been actively stressing about the wait"]A short while later ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022