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• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  usually performs in snuggies and Waldo costumes (check them out at one of ... Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  be afraid at all. But I am alone, and thinking of [annotation note ... typed away at the back of an empty cafe. "Coffee is the drug I’ve been ... vast number of edits to come… (at least the dark [a section of the book

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... 's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician. It takes a keen look at the stressors ... at Amazon. Some of your responses: Valentina (Bogota, Columbia): How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  barely edited this blog post at all, as, like the rest of the student body ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You ... wild with dreams of making a huge discovery at the lab and becoming super

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  Pot Pie was stunning, sort of like the 100-page rant at the end of Atlas ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  assignment at the end of term where you have to meet with the corresponding ... waking up early is completely gone. I'll usually glance over at my pile of ... > 3:00pm Getting Serious At this point all the feelings of productivity

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... evening class, which was very relaxing because at the end of my class day, I ... all of us having played pickleball at least once before (and tennis not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her ... transcript at the end of the semester is either a P, or NR. You either pass ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  : How often do people at MIT take these things? Well, some of you might ... the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... -ins? None that I've heard of. From my experience, there are so many things at ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  the lab of Professor Jianzhu Chen at the MIT Center for Cancer Research ... spend the summer of 2005 at NIST, studying the use of optical tweezers to ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am ... healthy foods and keep track of my calorie and vitamin and nutrient intake ... going "take vitamins!" (Hi mom.) As a part of my healthy eating craze, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013