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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  folks who handle the logistics of processing and inputting MIT mail into ... . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... compounded by the fact that people in Alaska have received their decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate yourself by turning left ... fallen asleep on a park bench by the side of the Charles River using

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of choosing the ring committee ... Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  was a sample size of 20, and master's aren't required by any means, but ... meche, much less writing, in Europe. So this was my process of figuring ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  Prize week also means the coming of Ig Nobel Prize week, brought to you by the folks at the Annals of Improbable Research and hosted by Harvard and ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  [by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11] Hello there MIT hopefuls and ... to create a program to educate students on the significance of leadership in all aspects of life - be it social, academic, technological - and

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique diversity of living environments at MIT is something we're proud of. As many of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  by the start of sophomore fall (we had a thing called Covid that ... of Killian (when it has grass, since it gets killed every year by ... this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it ... design (see some previous designs here) crafted by a small committee of ... projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... see your decision by clicking View Update. There are no interim screens

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  documents received during the holiday will not be processed by the office ... processing thousands of applicant documents at this time. If you have ... Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  ’m gonna try to re-wire myself to take breaks via reading instead of by ... energy industry → read The Tech, listen to 1-2 episodes of a recommended ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  of energy drinks, caffeine, and junk food all day. Next morning was ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  high energy, it was more of a faerie aesthetic, with a lot of focus on ... was by far my favorite act, and I feel like most of the crowd felt this ... with a series of difficult moves by soloists that I could not begin to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  architecture less. In fact, I actually really like and admire the process of ... being constrained by the pressure of following a well-planned path that ... really love the entire design process, especially the design mentality of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  a lot of my flow was influenced so much by rappers I was already super ... an anatomical map of human labor, data, and planetary resources." (The ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  energy. Partly because of this, I built most of my identity around the ... if I’d change the amount of time and energy I put into them. But this ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the ... means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your ... deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009