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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up ... into holiday mode and I believe that you need to do the same. As I read your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  Massachusetts is pouring a lot of money and a handful of partnerships into it ... should give me a better sense of what forces come into play in both ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from ... probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... Nov. 1 deadline. Please allow five days for the processing of all ... the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree ... don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... number of men's bathrooms per floor: two point eight. Average number of ... period? my sense of chronology is pretty terrible) every French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  work with faculty on any number of important projects, such as the MIT ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future ... about the economic, social, and environmental stability of the world. For

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  tupperware of salad to pepper into his burger everytime he goes to Mac ... moved of their own accord and he drew his arrow and shot it straight into ... waiting for you to look into them and there is no notion of control or you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  insights into the nature and trends of the modern admissions process; the ... assembled officers. Most of us got into this business (or, at least, stay in ... , most of us got into or stay within this profession because we deeply love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  ]. • Proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of ... the main lounge on my own, trying to fit all of our wing's plushies into ... away from the exodus, another step into the great unknown of the future

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  )I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of ... which category he falls into?), which premieres tomorrow night. Also in the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006