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• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  . We had to take copies of the books, remove the backing of the stickers ... of friends to Manray, self-described "home of the Boston underground ... gamut of gothiness, from Victorian goths to Matrix-esque goths to kinky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... and apathetic to complete. But I have to do it by the end of the month ... competitions and going to Charm School. Some of my friends are doing/running 6

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  8-032 leads to an outdoor loading area with a great view of a certain ... . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... come across the entry to some kind of facility with bored employees. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were written to vilify them. To this very day, much of the United Kingdom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to ... . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American ... . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of ... of being surrounded by family. Since coming to MIT, I've oscillated

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable ... feet of snow just to reach the sidewalk.) The caveat is that any day that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  all of us poor chemical engineers planning to go to grad school and save ... , and listen to some Brian Eno while contemplating the meaning of ... come out of the dryer, and being able to fall asleep so quickly will net

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll ... than 76%, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... attention to the plot) – what really caught my eye was the name of one of the ... ’t even remotely want to sleep – although a number of people in my row dozed

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... the sh*&$ out of you, telling you that you have to work a lot to finish

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2014! Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.

  

  all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days. ... Thanks to everyone who submitted applications for admissions blogging

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  of wrinkling and crinkling and hinging to questions in architecture ... curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr. Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the Class of 2009 =) *How to GAMIT defines punt: punt - (1) v.t. To ... nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005