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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most ... 's book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the beaver. The ... . The first designs were that of the skylines (on the sides of the ring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz ... packed full of sleeping bags, tents, and food. We were headed about 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  sun on my skin; I still see blue skies, light clouds, and networks of ... Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... astronomers over cocoa. Later on, you can find out more about how the first

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or ... the application. My favorite spelling error on MIT applications is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always ... on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association(UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  web, on email, or over the phone. The date of the mailing will be ... busy time! Most of us are very behind on email, phone calls, etc ... working on each decision: which students will be admitted, which will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  , the JC I worked on LN2 with, and I would take inventories of plastic ... nitrogen on Friday, which happened to fall on the Fourth of July. I learned ... alternate plan in the middle of a colloquium on Banach-Tarski(-Hausdorff). We

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will ... action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  ’ve been through a number of different majors but I’ve finally settled on ... I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in ... Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... -around mayhem of everybody waxing poetic about their life experiences hoping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on ... ) reports, regardless of what you write on those lines in the application. So ... the lower bound on each of these. Yes, scores do tend to correlate with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and ... room 10-250. A panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked ... amount of lotion seems to fix. After signing off on a few papers, I became ... Minutes Later "Okay, fine, let's draw on her." *patter of shoes, a pen

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  search for protein interactions based on the mass of the interactors. This ... investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... I have almost always wanted to work on. For those of you that have ... practicality. On top of that, academia as a whole is very specialized, so

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... "ungestalt" are two sides of the coin, depending on whether you think the form ... 've stayed up until five am for most of the past week, working on construction

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021