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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... midnight here on the East Coast, so Campus Preview Weekend begins today for the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  ! - and psst, he's in one of the photos on that blog I linked to if you can ... more amazing that a sizable number of these labs are willing to take on ... . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  everyone here, and for the new class perhaps most of all. As I wrote that ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be ... have led the way on some of the most important reforms to the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... giant glass door with a nonzero possibility of falling on you and ... fryer in one and it is fantastic. We then got to working on the rest of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new ... Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  and I decided to try out some new recipes together -- both of us wanted to try new things, but neither of us felt like we would actually ... most-of-a-buttload of stuff then sits on my floor for the entire semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  -written of fanfiction I could find on AO3, and even cracking open my old Tumblr ... presentation on a fan experience of mine and I was able to reflect on my time as ... computer science major sitting here on a Wednesday night with half of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... evenings of the semester (overshadowing even the 6.00 midterm). I was on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  )). Instead of paying for MIT parking, though, I keep my car on the street. It ... 't all bad, however; I got to hop on my shiny new bicycle (thanks ... time on the new bike before the cold really sets in, I was moderately

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM ... not censored here on the blogs... I think naked pictures of Timur might

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  Opener!! We had our very first game of the season on our home field! I ... is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera ... form of an online course, especially given that virtual school has given me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... sprawled on the ground, chair practically on top of him. Long story short ... Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  three and a half weeks. I spend my time with new friends instead of old ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  the academic buildings, it's also sufficiently on the edge of campus ... we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  the walls of the Infinite without being seen, or putting a flag on the ... answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the back of a stranger’s car at the crack of dawn on New Year’s Day. We ... program, supervise a group of postdocs and students, and serve on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025