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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had only completed about 5 of the applications by mid-December (under the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  in the basement of ChemE’s building 66, lovingly referred to as “the ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  bunch of undergraduate minions - I mean, employees - to help out with the ... easy problems, but with those out of the way now I'm going back to that ... itself ever could. I round the corner of the hallway and make it to my TA

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

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Representative. During my second year Apple flew all of the Campus Reps to the ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... 't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  this morning, I compared myself to a photo of Kermit the Frog drinking ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals week for the fall semester. Here's how the bloggers (most of whom have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , and I almost forgot the best part. Today I was talking to my supervisor ... favorite is Rome, and that one time he went to Rome and saw the Pope walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ripe age of 10, and I loved making robots. So, the decision to major in ... of electives chosen by the student to provide in-depth study of a field ... admissions process. I’ve had the opportunity to visit Baltimore, New Haven, New

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... sequel to Junior Lab). In the spirit of peer review, each of us has to read ... to the lake shore, it’s just us and the geese under a cloudy sky. We

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  decide. No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide. (10) Ohio was stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy! ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... 'll just smile and think of how crazy MIT was. With that, I'm going to back

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  those who meet all of the following criteria: You have applied for ... were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions ... the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  -mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm ... ." Feeling disinclined to demonstrate my lack of both, I ignored the e-mail. I ... out an e-mail to the living group: "You should audition if any of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... variety of things I could do with my life, without tying myself to the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  scores at the time of EA selection, we'll simply defer an applicant to ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... of this social was to introduce the GEL students to their mentors, who

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  last sentence. Yesterday, a bunch of us went over to the activities ... interesting--to the tune of Carlos Santana's "Smooth," the dancers were told to ... . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005