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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my ... than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... to be a huge day, but staring at myself, with my bent glasses hinged on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... buzz for Oscar Wao on the class discussion list [see entry: "Running away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  . Come tuck into a meat-free feast prepared for you by Randomites. If you ... of Fortress Awesome invite you to their castle for a glorious feast ... ! Come munch on authentic home-cooked Hispanic food while listening to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... to me knows, but you are as free as you want to be at MIT. You can take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... managed to zipline upside-down on my last attempt, although I never quite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  I need to destroy everything around me to move on in the first place ... up to have? When I allow the pipe dreams to take over, I break free ... daydream–for what is sleeping if not a reason to leave where you are

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Red Sox, but winning is fun and I wanted to have fun. For the first time ... Great Drumsolo, Kelvin was the only player for the team, and was forced to ... eventually go to a more entertaining game in the future.  The food, on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  to look at the solutions for help on all problems to varying degrees ... accidentally watched nothing on YouTube for 3 hours, went to dinner, and then ... Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  still apply to MIT for Early and/or Regular Action? A: On Nov 30th, Quest ... our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half ... European Conference on Computer Vision. But I had a couple days free first ... my labmates and I rented a motorboat to go on Lake Como, which was less

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of ... tennis court on any of my walks to or from MacGregor. So kudos to having a ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... . Winter break as officially started for me, so life is pretty good right now. But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... solid logic, so I registered for eight classes. Then I had to drop one ... for something to write, or a new way of seeing one of the stories I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... Professor Peter Fisher appeared on Late Night to help Conan finally beat the ... Physicist. To solve the problem, Prof. Fisher asked many other for help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... am supposed to define myself now?" On the other side of the phone, my friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  decide to do something for pleasure for more than the two weeks that makes ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it ... ’m trying to not put too much pressure on myself though, because if I do that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public ... (though perhaps not for me) to compete GPA-wise with applicants from ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025