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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  felt sympathetic to this community that I wasn’t even a part of and knew ... lottery, and I liked that I was basically guaranteed to live there in the ... to recognize that the harmless humor, absurdity, and general nonsense

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... application. Send this via US Mail to MIT Admissions; be sure your full name and ... to be considered, and students do not need to audition to take music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  enormous bowls of candy, ready to greet costumed individuals and pass out the ... never be too safe), it leapt to life and shouted, startling us and ... would be too old to be gallivanting through the streets and asking for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art ... and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  .M. Church. I live at 12183 Cainwood Avenue. I aspire to become an author. (and ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to ... , you are now that much less ignorant. Yes, we cheer for football and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival ... grandparents and my uncle from Costa Rica. I couldn’t wait to show them all ... the academic buildings and where the different labs are. I had to find

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you ... clinic was open from 8 AM to 6 PM. That’s ten hours. And over nine thousand ... [/annotation] and continue upward. The largest contribution to the speed is probably

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... discussion to a close, and at the end of the day, we accomplished nothing. No ... between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  first week was needed to adjust to my new schedule and the loss of Pass ... that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for ... performing or playing in a game, we gather people to watch and cheer them on. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... don't help terribly much, and we never expect that applicants will send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  , proximity to the Infinite Corridor, and - most relevant to this blog entry ... 4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes. And then I realize...oh, yeah. I'm in Building 4. So I book it to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  world, from Taiwan to San Diego to right next door, and I’d much rather ... Kart tournaments and everything in between, flooded back to me. Home was here, not ... ="Next is known to have one of the best dining halls on campus, and so far the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes ... knocked on doors and reminded people to vote and got more comfortable ... . too much left to do. here's to 2017.

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and ... ."]REX[/annotation], and our seats were next to one another! On the plane I listened to You ... , I can talk to MORE PILOTS and collect PILOT TRADING CARDS???? My nerd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... Admitted: To get this answer will be difficult and perhaps a bit frustrating ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet

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

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  the hidden location on campus, call headquarters to confirm, and we'd be ... -fi plots and RPG-inspired tasks that is undoubtedly much cooler than it ... and Astaire and write them in the grid. The second trick was to realize

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009