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• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn't ... are a leader, aren't you? Well, AREN'T YOU?? Don't fall for it. Yes ... admissions readers that we can't take a considerably larger number than we do

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  lab to walk home. Either I'm not very observant, or someone acted ... : It's a chair! But wait, there's a sign on the back! I ran home ... with everyone. I'm off to search some more.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  like waifu things." I didn’t have enough hands to haul a body pillow ... ’ed a cover because Target didn’t have any. Unfortunately, the cover ... If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... middle of homework. We had a team of roughly 25 students calling students

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  . They don't look like much in these photographs, but they created a ... The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... campus. Student collaboration MIT also has a strong culture of student
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  and cheese bread, and didn't accept card half the time, but for a sweet ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  following May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don't ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who ... - in person he's just a guy. Not the guy who revolutionized everything

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  important than anything else, which won't help us in making a good match ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool hands-on work isn't done with a formal organization [ref: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  a trip to Boston. I had about thirty seconds of, wow, you can't even ... 're glass. So, it was basically a whole gallery of... plant models. I wasn't ... , there was a super helpful docent who gave us information that wasn't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... be a good guess. I first heard about the hack from a few friends talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the ... -clean personal environment, extra sheetrock improves soundproofing, a rooftop garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named ... and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... !! Scrapbook!! play w a dog!! Audrey ’24- I enjoyed going on runs and wandering

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022