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• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  , there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  reports) to remind me of the pleasant times spent at Makerlodge this ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new ... at too high of a temperature, you won't get any crusting at all ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  journal: Today at the Plastic Lunch, the periodic get-together of the ... " -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  other summer interns at Microsoft NERD. To top it off, the new season of ... finally was on top of everything. I had planned to post this at the end of ... final-round onsite at a startup for a full day of interviews. I arrived on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of ... piling the pieces at the front of the room, so that the kids could all sit on the floor. I put the projector at the back of the room, and got Eric

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at ... you choose to throw at yourself. It's just six units of free credit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  efficient work before my bed time. Lately, I've been spending at least half of ... Ensemble's production of Macbeth. I had a blast! Clocked in at 9 a.m. and had dinner with some of the crew at 6 p.m. It wasn't until three days later

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding ... of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... month at MIT- IAP! If being relaxed and useless stresses you out, it

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... really want an unedited look at what life is like as an MIT student... here is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  't even be at MIT anymore. It's kind of curious how my last Leap Day was my ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 = 0, yr# mod 400 = 0 must also be true), we get one of these odd days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  watch yourself break." But I enjoy — of course I enjoy, at this place ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... .67 classes and a UROP all at once again (because come sophomore fall I’d take

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  libido. I'm asexual, but I still masturbate at a regular basis, and most of ... of pieces, delivered by individuals or small groups of actors, talking about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022