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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  , and the toughness of the times does not discriminate in its destruction ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... virtual office hours scared the shit out of me. I skipped checkoffs for no

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... did, but because of the behavior of admissions officers and parents. Admissions officials routinely boasted of the number of applicants with perfect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... door.) Made good time to Hartford; checked into the Hilton (didn't see

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... calculate the mean and standard deviation of your votes. ... Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  good for the world; the problem is that those two parts of me both feel ... said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... to come pick up their rings. The Class of '09 Ring Delivery was held

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course ... !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... minimalist design to collages to chalk. And these are from just ONE of the many

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... – that the finite often comes clamping down on ideas of infinity

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  's good to go away for the weekend.  To feel the crunch of snow under the ... of the best things that's happened to me at MIT. “These are all silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  many of the original bullets were written in the acronym-filled gibberish ... 's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... pm EST. The best part of my job was calling students who were ecstatic ... , the fuel and the tool! Luckily after two of my roommates joined me, the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ... the landscaping, man), it does put a little more pressure on the staff ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  good grasp of the content you learned in the first year at mit. if I did ... lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... if the bedrock of our society came crumbling down. I was less shocked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold ... really beautiful. Anyway, I met CK at the very beginning of my freshman ... involved impromptu photoshoots. That same year I met the 3rd star of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... ."]Dormspam[/annotation] asking students how much they spend monthly to see the cost of MIT outside

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025