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• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... , especially since I've had the pleasure of meeting him, as well as his wife at a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world ... burst into tears at once, frightened, certain of impending death ... the several phrases I identify with, but thankfully, at MIT, the bulk of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  I don't even know myself at all I thought I would be happy but now The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of ... saved at whatever cost. The fears of State Street and the prejudices of ... inauguration of Lincoln, and the proofs of moderate counsels which he will at

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed ... 're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... of the dorms, and an even better time to have fun. We at East Campus ... / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but ... very different from a lot of the other technicals I've taken at MIT ... ; I intake all of the assignments in one fell swoop at the beginning of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  As the advent of another academic year approaches, I feel somewhat ... with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... the eyes of the torrent of 2015s that have descended upon campus in the

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  of this? Because within a few months, those little blogs, buried at the ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  couple times after that, once at a journalism convention in senior year of ... anime phases. she visited me at the beginning of the school year, last fall, and we got lunch at tatte's, she introduced me to the concept of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  where the clan eats communally at odd hours of the night and perhaps a special festival at the end of the week. I was tasked with joining EC ... particle of mass m and charge +q released at the point (d,0) and traveling a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019