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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  to know that you can't afford a College/University: First you apply ... Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston: Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... would be missing out on the big picture of the city or town as a whole

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  MIT is a really stressful place.  Class just started less than one week ago, and I already have four problem sets due and a quiz this week.  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else ... Squalor was, and why it was so funny. Zach gladly obliged and showed me a website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  Logarhythms captivated us with an ambitious a cappella setlist: Don’t Lose Sight ... ! Of course, it wouldn’t be a CPW Closing Show without inviting the ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  finish -- concepts we didn't understand a few weeks prior began making more ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every ... pictures of them to show everyone. For those of you that don't know, MIT is ... is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements (we should have ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  felt a sense of accomplishment like never before, and I knew I was ready for whatever else MIT would throw at me. I like that MIT doesn't just ... human genome, teaches Biology; a the beloved Don Sadoway teaching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  some mistake here ... someone pls correct us in the comments ... we aren't ...  again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming ... waayyyy too many FAP jokes and puns. And after going through this program a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I put "vacation" in quotations not because it wasn't wonderful - it was ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... same thing. Fortunately for all of us, MIT has a remarkably strong ... with your problem sets for the week (or even if you aren't...) and are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn't ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  , like Reid Barton or Laurel Yong-Hwa Lee. But you probably don't think ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  international students.   I've been promising a post about international admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  doesn't teach you in a class) A coach (who is not also one of your ... recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from a humanities teacher ("Evaluation B"). If you are applying this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community, each contributing a set of rare skills and perspectives while ... , of course, remarkable intelligence.   a younger me, with some ... will be honored by speakers, recognized by faculty, and handed a well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn’t ... final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at ... really get a sneak peek at the life of an MIT student. These students have ... really are! I don’t think I can do my students justice by just talking

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012