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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just ... was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn ... taking hardcore technicals, so I’m going back to farting on the internet

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  always give the student the benefit of the doubt, so we usually err on the ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  As a brand new bright-eyed freshman here, you’ll quickly discover that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  jumble of thoughts. It feels like a stereo is playing; on one channel, I ... their identity.  There was conversation on how a lot of South Asian ... near the cluster of other people dancing. We keep planning on leaving but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... wilds of suburban New Mexico. Me: ...Ben, where are you ACTUALLY from? Ben ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North ... meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  presentation on Poisson statistics, I got torn to shreds. Instead of defending ... : the excitement of coming up with something new TOTALLY outweighs the ... fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate ... 'm reading a thesis of a friend; he could have written in English

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Officer and Director of the Educational Council, has become my new bearded ... Just when I thought I couldn't make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  with friends, watch TV or movies, or play on any of the game consoles the ... know. This confuses a lot of people. There are no rooms on the ground floor of BC. So when someone says they live on Burton 1, they actually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  the Media Lab on the east side of campus. It's also only about a hundred ... diagnostics on me Monday afternoon, including a lot of blood samples and another ... with major surgery is like watching an avalanche on one of Saturn’s moons

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... on.  And what’s even more special is that I didn’t have to do any of ... out on the adventure of a lifetime. A few days ago, I got some really

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of your essay. Avoid slang. Use "street cred" on your own time. If ... impressed by the poster that has your head superimposed on the body of Arnold ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  financial aid award*. "When I started reading 'On behalf of the Admissions ... ." [Please note: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial need; there ... female clothing while Obropta concentrates on the male side of the store

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009