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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... ’s sorta sketchy, so I see the cop cars, and the cops talking to a woman

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  for our class picture and is where we will come together once again to ... Committee, are chosen to redesign the ring and add little details that recall ... constant fight to achieve balance in our social and academic lives. Athena

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being ... particularly bad nightmare, but nothing much to complain about, and, surprisingly ... much more to discover—it is a wonderful feeling to have at last. And, of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  practices, a capella rehearsals, study sessions, and much more. Right next to ... Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement ... position, I receive emails from students and although I do my best to respond

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  , he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... young age, my sister and I were raised with his itch to travel, with that ... seatbelts, I was always exclaiming “that was AWESOME!” and racing to ride

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each ... picking one to write about; while I fret, more pile up, and the Cycle Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  -off things like "How much do you know about Canada?" and "Lockpicking 101" to ... to jump right in without too much additional training - and it'll be ... whole house, places the online order, and has it all delivered to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be ... for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... ! Adjacent to the woodshop and full of machinery for your metalworking needs

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or ... one of those "use revolving door to conserve energy" signs Energy is ... then we got to lagrangian and it was so beautiful" ***** person 1: aw

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower ... qualified. Talk to some of the deferred students who post here, and each time ... 's easier than ever for excellent students to apply to and choose a school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up ... course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics ... , fellow blogger Kano and I decided to conduct an interview to document their

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  ’t structured to be done alone. And I am not built to spend so many hours hunched ... mostly been good albeit fragile and that there are people who listen to ... certain camaraderie to finishing a pset together at 3 am and walking down

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... out to me, and I went over to Building 46 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... 's actually kind of funny—I was taking my cat to the pet groomer and on the way

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021