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• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town ... High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for ... American Independent Film Festival from 8:30 a.m. to midnight at 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application to the ... submit your application. If your application is ready to go, click that ... . For questions we haven't yet answered, please leave your query in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where ... paint job. Sometimes people get enthusiastic and want to touch each others ... has more girls than guys." She had a point--the MIT team is in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a ... . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC. Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  classes in any department. However, students need to fulfill certain subject ... schools. Students interested in a career in medicine or other health-related professions are encouraged to complete a prehealth registration meeting with
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  . Also, I wasn't too interested in the prize of a VIP card to any of Boston ... turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... , 2006 (9:00a.m. EST) to January 22, 2006 (11:59PM EST) How to enter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that ... make breakfast for the girls in the house before they went off to finals ... classes. For the last class, I have to write a thesis proposal.. which is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  -around awesome person. Wednesday, Mar 1. Free day in Palo Alto! I sleep in, go to a ... 've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... together, and we're getting to know each other pretty well by now) and catch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  Ethiopia to the United States a few years before I was born, so their entire ... professor at a college in Dallas—had a conference in a city far north from our ... bags (I think I was still young enough to share a suitcase with Raiye

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  -HAMENTASHEN DEBATE Today, 8:00 p.m. in Room 10-250 Don't miss this exciting debate ... arguments in favor of their respective type of food. Hear the arguments of ... after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to ... glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when ... a sophomore majoring in physics. At MIT, she has done research in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011