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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  's memorial in D.C. This is one of the most respectful pictures we took during ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... overwhelming, i try to make sure i remember this every single day. for the most ... themes of the season, and in the middle of episode 6 there is this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action ... decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  (MAS.S65). In the classs, grad students would be exposed to various ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write ... flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... 's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not ... any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... once the second semester started. In order to compensate for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... . The man asked what Lucas is majoring in (physics) and said something

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or ... after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... semester...choice 2 is the obvious way to go. Choice 2 meant screenshots ... clean line-drawings... but in the end, they were excited to see the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self ... experience, a journey cut too short, it's tragedy is it's beauty; and in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... at another restaurant in Downtown Crossing. The lines begin to

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the ... unabashedly. This is the person I was meant to be. And MIT gave me that chance ... 've made progress in terms of learning to trust people and see the good in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... we're going to feed all of you! And, you know, run you into the ground

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after ... possible. Finally, please complete the Medical Release Form. Notes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... from the area made it to the party as well as most of the incoming ... connection and decided to walk around the airport, and apparently, I'd ventured

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... we all really fit in here at MIT. I really think the bottom line is

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006