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• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  her counterparts on other campuses to lower the pressure on students ... between schools to get top ranking on national lists such as the annual US ... address the Consortium on Financing Higher Education in June and talk to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  the theme is to have an organizing principle that helps convey the ... week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... that. MIT believes in service; service to the world and service to each

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  administrative buildings, it's probably the only place that everyone on campus ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  to help me out half the time."]“those rice tamale things,” [/annotation ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the ... couple competing theories as to what the holiday originally celebrated, but

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  . So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest ... , besides insisting that we serve corn on the cob, was deciding on a theme. Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... exposure to the infamous world of infomercials. Early morning and late night ... the low, low price of $19.95 wasn’t enough to convince me that those

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you're considering taking time away from the Institute, or you just don’t know who to talk to, S3 can help. The S3 mission is to promote the academic success
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  2021. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... mission to make the world a better place. We deferred 5,853 applicants

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think ... see the Kandinsky. I was less excited to see red squares on white canvas ... wandering around and doing handstands on stage, to symbolize the duchess

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on shape and the prominent beaver on its bezel, but the specific details of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  they are currently working on or to begin research now with the goal of ... limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  opportunities to focus on nanotechnology. The primary majors connected to ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  back to Tampa on Thursday to attend and present at the national ... the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational ... . Folks came to the meeting from far and wide, such as Tallahassee (thanks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the ... more helpful to the masses if I stay on the topic of MIT life and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  time staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Woodrow ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  remembering to put it on upside-down – but the fact that I describe it that way ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... backburner until i have to actually have to make the decision, waiting for more information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022