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• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule and not doing many student-life related things because of the time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  my dorm (East Campus). I've spent a lot of time living by my own agenda ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more ... about image and reputation. Many of my best friends are pretty uninhibited

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... to the ticket window. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... my hometown of Los Angeles. It wasn't bad. Taking four classes was just

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... “closed” and will not be admitting any additional students for the Class of ... updates that many of you have submitted, and appreciate the time and effort

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  social media addict does) and found these pictures my family posted of ... .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I ... .♪ ♫And here's your typical pic of the Dome. Still can't believe I can call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  e-mail from one of our alums, Mitch B. '03, about an underground Ice ... of ice. I didn’t bring ice skates, but Mitch let me borrow his and it ... finished up with skating for a bit, a bunch of us gathered wood and started a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... various capabilities of engineering leadership. For example, IR means ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not ... , we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr ... . Speaking of Monday, I hope we've given you every opportunity to ask questions

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... inexplicably decided to watch all 5 seasons of ‘Quantum Leap’ back-to-back, which

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  : 50 states and 59 countries The record number of applications means ... Class of 2014. We have put our heart and soul, and our best judgment, into ... excellent applicants to bring together a class. I know I speak for all of the

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies ... semesters, I’m cooling my heels wondering if I should bake a batch of cookies

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an open-air market the other day so now there are a lot of avocados in our

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or ... enrollment") Both of these examples, of course, don't get caught by spell ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab class about the art of creating electrical devices which use power ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with ... , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of ... remember one of the students asking, "so, this is going to take forever

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008