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• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and ... senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns ... matter before I apply to graduate school. I am taking five classes for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of ... of MIT students are MIT students. Admissions officers can write about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her credentials on her resume 28 years ago in 1979, when she applied for her first

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for the most lucrative of offerings. E-mail concerns directly to ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  out of East Campus (after moving out of Baker) and into Simmons Hall ... The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... room as a student, especially on weekends when the Baker dining hall was ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  ": technically part of H Entry, but Chris Pentacoff (who lived across the hall from ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her new apartment and painting there. I, of course, agreed that this was a ... student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of ... now in front of this big window overlooking the busy street of Mass Ave ... Snickers happily snuggled into my side. I miss the smell of freshly prepared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  offered by the department; some go beyond and add explanations of what the ... through certain sections of the cataloged offerings in 2, 6, 16, and various ... a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  post about this before the end of the semester...i'm doing my best"]applying ... part of that work!"]applying back to the media lab[/annotation] next year ... put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... officially started...) Maseeh was the only dining hall open that morning, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... class applied what we learned. Behind all of the polished class drawings ... independently. However, applied to drawing, I can look at how the adjustment of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023