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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  MIT, I appreciate the most is the diversity. I guess it might be because ... vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  , and joon is lol, so i wouldn't have been able to make this in the first ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  mindset goes sour remember there is so much beauty to grasp always. In the ... ’t want to get into the weeds here just yet, but this is probably where most ... successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  this: the point of college is to become educated. And in some ways, MIT ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... trying to convince others not to make the same mistake: Burton Conner IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  manipulate the process in order to gain admission. In case this distinction is ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a ... direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... financial aid forms (thank you so much!), and even drove me to the post office ... little like falling in love: one trip to the campus and they "just knew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  don't even know where to begin. I guess the beginning is best- I got ... I respond to him in Spanish, then would return the note with his ... ! So she (her name is Berny) told me to come back the next day with all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission ... "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... -coated giant, or learning Haskell, which is one of the most intimidating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  admitted students in the days and weeks to come. In the meantime, we ... ://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you ... in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... , and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six ... 're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority ... personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  sequel to Fantasy High. A Court of Fey and Flowers - This is the current ... thing that stuck out to me most was the level of dedication and commitment ... inventory or past events, to scour the room and just do really cool shit in D

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... , I’ve found that timing is everything.  Being in the right place, at ... in the driver’s seat in many areas of life including the ability to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it ... parties, that I happened to find things to study that I enjoyed so much. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT ... much to try different restaurants in Boston... but this summer, I ... 's one of the most historical cities in the world! Because my roommates and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... be famous? In what way?” to “Of all the people in your family, whose ... the same time, we MUST bother to know others, because friendship is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018