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• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3/14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... are a very good start.   good morning, MIT—i didn’t sleep last ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  guess I'm a blogger now. Also apparently I'm a real life MIT student now ... into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... my flight :( BUT I took it like a man, pulled out my macbook and played

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from a humanities teacher ("Evaluation B"). If you are applying this year ... ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... like the Harry Potter phenomenon now. Harry Potter is a massive mass market success at a time when all of our conversations are focusing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... /D/F, a well-known but surprisingly little-used option that you can exercise twice during your last two years at MIT. I also have a 6.003 p-set due

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to college, a lack of additional colleges having been built, students taking ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  communicate it. I just walked out of an event called "Digital Anxieties: A ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a ... making 2 cakes, cupcakes, and a giant cookie. Everything is vegan and he ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... ’s main project, "Dynamic Currency Conversion," a system that

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015