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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was ... with my admissions colleagues and the incredible alumni who interview our prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... concert, featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus! The opening act was ... during their set, and I am pretty happy with the results. After

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted!

  

    ლ(╹◡╹ლ) Use the comment section below to introduce yourselves!  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  passed my EMT class during IAP, and then the state practical exam last week.  All that is left is the national exam, which I am taking within the next ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8 ... problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date, the nurse/doctor/receptionist says WOW!!! YOU'RE A HALLOWEEN BABY?? SO ... notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... written and well-thought out, and they tie together all the different ...  Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... ), one of the FPOPs (Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs) offered to incoming ... let me design the tank tops. :) All the DEALers go through serious

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... the tragedy that happened in Boston this Monday, knowing full well that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and figured that that's what the whole building was. The point is: I thought ... leave the room when our teacher told us to etherize the rest. In 10th

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston from lying down on my bed in the dark with window shades up. The night retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and ... instructor in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  the warship, and it was published online! Please look: http://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters this morning laughed about. They joked and said it would have at the top

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course, it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most ... detail was the MIT Press Loading Dock Sale. And I lied - I KNEW it was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012