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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  wonderfully idiosyncratic family of the admissions office, who will always be ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  the internet if you're not sure when they're going to show up. (I should ... 't understand... Haha, I don't know how to be less confusing. MIT kids will rarely ... philosophical question for you to answer... Why? Because you love it. :) The only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  to be with someone who thought she was beautiful, and not just ... -question test. I was frustrated. Why didn't he try? I wanted to do math, not ... . He stared at me. "Why will you never go out on the boat with me?" I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  if I got into MIT I would be the person I wanted to be. That’s not true. Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... . Regardless of your admissions decision, you will continue to be the good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their code of ethics. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  at MIT (but not the same, nothing compares to being here). Additionally, the new cancer research center here is just being finished and will hope ... WILL survive. If you swim the wrong direction, well, you shouldn't be at

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  classical pianist and will be one of many contributing to the opera ... coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... ’s shut down. Why, you ask? Why, you really ask? Why not? I’ve just had all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... longer than 4 years to graduate, but mostly I hear the problem is due to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  not the most car-friendly spots in the world. And I'd be leaving this ... , and the fact that she also happens to be a woman reinforces the fact ... waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from ... majority of MIT students are smart enough not to fall for the "politics" part ... . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  checklist, which will now be turned off. In order to reduce any extra stress (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a ... someone from our team will get back to you! Admissions decisions will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  it sufficiently. Whether you learn this or not, you most likely will be ... . Be nice to underclassmen -- Pay it forward, yah? Eat at The Helmand ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts ... big. If you need to know one thing about Wagner, that might be it. The ... managing to be graceful Rheinmaidens while suspended 30 feet in the air

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best ... will consume. Do you think that, even if I got the position, being a ... , the transition from high school to MIT is not a straight line - it's a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  to be done to inform that professor of their love. The class of 2010 ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them ... , it was 64 percent. Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  constitutes the most interesting thing I'll be doing all summer, I will blog ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being ... ) we took the old ask.mitadmissions.org, which used to be an external ... we designed and built the site to be more accessible, particularly to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location, now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022