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• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format.  Otherwise, ask away! Let me give you a brief update from campus...  The ... in Orlando; we'll finish in a month in Chicagoland.  Finally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  accepting around 20 students. Obviously with a selection process that rigorous, we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We know this. And it's not a great feeling. What is a great feeling

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... 'm on a roll. Maybe I should call it recovery, instead. This feeling of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. The MIT Transfer Application is live and available for download. A few important notes and ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their words: "Fraternities and sororities mean having a great outlet away ... women on campus. Denzil (Panhel): The Greek System is a large part of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... .  Sure, there are a lot of cool and a lot of awkward moments at MIT, but all together, I think we balance out pretty well. :) A colorful shot

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive. At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon ... over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001 ... a more personal level. Many of my very closest friends are alumni. My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... right: Kate Rudolph, "Tetrahedron Packing" // Will Drevo, "A Man Named King" // Jeff Lin, "B" // Samuel Markson, "A Physicist's Elevator Pitch

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... unparalleled. So true. MIT has produced a number of Rhodes Scholars, Gates

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  this video a while back - I've watched it approximately 20 times since then, haha) My experiments are working! And as a result, I'm about to spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of ... 's 150th was a pretty neat event to cover: Check out these three articles

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when ... &D challenge, a call for dormitories, independent living groups, and Greek

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies, inappropriately timed humor, and meme pictures. There will ultimately be a binary ... it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... write code that aggregates geometric elements in a defined space as if

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011