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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to analyze Hamlet, or a Harvard student to solve a math problem. So I'll leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do ... with the bloggers, I headed over to the CambridgeSide Galleria with Mitra to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , 12/13/14, at 15:16 (3:16PM) ET. To check your decision on the 13th ... .   In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 13th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th ... are ready!  In order to verify that you will receive a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange ... me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, during CPW last weekend. Here are some photos to attest to just how terrifying delicious re-deep-frying deep-fried food is ... day before that we invited the early pre-frosh arrivals to a welding

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  There Will Be Pi (Day)

  

  We have something to tell you - with a little help from the bloggers ... and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... excited to now launch the MIT Admissions page en Español. On this page, we ... . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... . During that interview Hersh - who I think it is fair to say is somewhat

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no ... speak for himself: "You wanna go to Harvard? I wanna go to MIT. You ... ." Just watch the video - it speaks for itself. A big thank you to all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the ... the tunnels to either test my sense of direction or shy away from the ... of whom you might have heard about before), and I decided to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try ... Harvard as the primary reason I started thinking seriously about going to MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still ... than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... so exciting to be here finally that the bug bites and jet lag and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007