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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... thought I'd share it here: I'm so sorry that some of you have been on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... undervalue himself based on the value system of those around him. A good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... Francisco, which was sad because I loved my job. Unfortunately it dawned on me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So ... stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  handle the foundation before you move on to what you really care about. As ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of ... frightening nightmare last night. Read on if you dare. So as Melis and Bryan ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... ,000 has a very great effect on our student culture -- it's really possible

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that ... here. MIT's affinity for hands-on approaches to education. Our latin

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... groups, Schrock metathesis, Schrock-type carbene complexes, and so on... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The ... came here, I ended up on 5th East, a place with a decades-old culture ... " that administrators everywhere harp on, and then four years later you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... 4H. Moving on... I mentioned that MATCH has a good retention rate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  roles, gender stereotypes, and sexuality. We will especially focus on ... impact that "Sex and the City" and other media have had on current college ... .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  think it was insinuated that content on the blogs was getting maybe ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... feeling. I don't think I realized how much I relied on writing to feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep because I'm most familiar with them, but many other makerspaces on campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  , when mit let people live on campus again. this was back in covid times ... on floorpi anyways, i interacted with cj's pod a lot, with my ... , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  was appropriate to put on the mit admissions blog; feel free to contact ... are staying on the east coast b) it wasn’t clear to me if they would be ... just say no to everyone and try working on projects on my own for a year

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  ’s different but I love it.  We decide to go to the Barnes & Noble we saw on ... teaches Bhuvna some dance moves as Neil works on his [annotation note="6 ... put on a movie on the TV. The movie is not great but the commentary is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  Orlando from Boston on Friday and flying out on Tuesday. I went with three ... originally was very hesitant to go on this trip with them, especially because I ... hardcore for this trip. On Saturday, we woke up at 5:45 so we could arrive to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... , "All of the MIT-run food places on campus have vegetarian (and usually ... most countries put markedly less emphasis on extracurricular activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006