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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before ... cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind ... 54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  , and Snape). Bathrooms were relabeled to be for "Wizards ... Fenway 13 multiplexes, have sold out more than 20 midnight showings.  For ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  , News Office October 18, 2006 The Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies ... very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... 's definitely something to think about. This event, like the French Hip Hop I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  MAKING! For years, it had been impossible to pull off - there simply hadn ... ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we updated the admissions statistics page for this ... Trivia: This year's admit rate was 11.9%. What was the admit rate for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  Anthony's latest entry?) Some nice red lighting, for Radiohead... Some solos... I got to sit behind the sound guy! ;) And, for the grand ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 ... Emeritus Modigliani, earned a Nobel "for his pioneering analyses of saving ... -affiliated economists who have won Nobel Prizes for breakthroughs in game theory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  ...hello to David '09, Greg '09, Alex '09, Rachel '09, Libby '09, Jackie '09 ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... Semester @ MIT | Infographics Well, good luck to all of us this spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  ) Herrell's D) Christina's Boston and Cambridge are home to many other fine

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We realize our applicants are very committed to their schoolwork and with their ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

  [annotation note="The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas :^("]note[/annotation][annotation note="These memes were brought to you by us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via email to schedule an interview ... frequently. Details about our interview process and what to expect are