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• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not ... circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract ... unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be ... 's early acceptance rate so low compared to other selective colleges?" Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM (18 minutes early) and headed up to the third floor to check out the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike ... got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  from 10.302: Transport Processes. "There are two ways to look at this... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... day requiring some comfort food at the end. I haven't been to Star

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I ... soon as I find my camera cable) So Thursday night, we went to Betty

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... rumors to the contrary, being Black, Latino, Native, or any other minority is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action ... reached out to us via email. Once you have reached out to our Quest
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually listening to them ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... ’t either).          It’s upsetting to walk past rooms that belonged to ... interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019