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• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  more. All of these awesome people have been working on a ton of events ... miss out on! Next Big Thing Presents: The aMAZEing Space Are you sick of ... , like murals in the basements of MIT! Art Club: We make art on Saturday

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  .” He went on to explain that I was one of less than a dozen children ever ... Silence. Stillness. As I lay on my side, feet curled into my chest ... earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  to think that a bit of her carries on between those covers. You ... and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who lived over on the Boston side had to hike over the Harvard Bridge to this

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT, take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  1995, played hundreds of shows in 10 different states on both coasts, won ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of ... . They are all so different and yet you can look at any one of them and say

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  years) picture of me.Moving on, really. By now, you've probably forgotten ... time. How to handle those moments of tension and overload and take on ... For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of ... things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  Action applicants; the current status of your application is now shown on ... good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... about 6%. Midyear Report: The Midyear Report is on schedule to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I ... back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess ... feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... forward on their seats because of the hard chair back. Wooden Holy Chair ... markings of a prefrosh on one of the boards. Somebody certainly was excited

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008