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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners ... about the other people at MIT who shape the lives in our community: the ... students across campus. He was the nightwatchman at two dorms, East Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... can all relate to Chris and Mitch and Jordan. Tomorrow, we'll be back at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  As the largest department at MIT, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of ... School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... percentage of students at MIT end up majoring in something other than what they
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  portal itself (Naviance, fax, mail, etc.) require at least three business ... business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  ) or the suitcase record player that daniel bought at a [annotation note ... records in central square has a few cases of $1 records at the entrance, but ... . we ended up in a record store and i was looking at the cd section. we

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance ... masterpost about dance at MIT... I started learning choreographed dances when I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  Fred Desk, I waited an extra two days, and still nothing. At this point a ... offers, interviewing at a dozen different places, and already having plans ... 's currently staying at Next asked me if I wanted to staple with him for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... stop at the grocery store I remembered so fondly from my childhood in ... waters, so one fine day, she begged her parents to let her stare at the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  was also a chance to see brothers of the house at their best. Lots of ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at ... excerpts from a bunch of old stories: He jolted, sitting up straight at once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... French House dinner - at this point, I don't remember what the food ... at 21cm wavelengths. "Why the heck do hydrogen atoms emit at 21cm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... challenges, and then they would predict how well they would succeed at officer ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... concluded I was shooting too high, and falling quite short. At the conclusion

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... began my job here at the office, and while I've learned a lot (a lot) over ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  students taking their own lives at MIT and places like it, the causes -- to ... also come in part from two heavily publicized deaths at MIT nearly ten years ago; most suicides at colleges are not heavily publicized. (See also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  seemed that way at first. I walked out of it with a horrible sinking ... . I had been able to confidently complete at least some of that material ... turned out) above the class average, and that looking at both that and my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  here: please keep in mind that all of the following are, at worst, only ... % serious at best. By “at best,” I of course mean, “at funerals.”) -8 ... at summarizing the 8.03 course material: -A wave on a spring is a wave

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  the Charles river as the Red Line subway torpedoed into Boston at 9 AM ... . Sleep was encountered at 3:30 AM. Eleven hours drove by on their weary ... regret when you think about four day weekends at MIT. Let me try to explain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008