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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  each unique MIT experience. Not to sound cheesy, but you guys are doing ... and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... thought I'd respond to the questions that have been piling up over the past week. Responses to Comments: Jalpan Dave asked: Is there any way I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  out? The website just says 'July'..." We expect to receive this year's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to distribute to on campus visitors. Shortly after that, we will begin mailing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  /meters, approximately (or, exactly sizes, if known)? Is it possible to find in Internet ... wireless access in all rooms? According to the mit wireless access map, it ... connection is mention. Whom to believe? :) If it has no wireless access, is it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that you're not allowed to bring cameras inside... so I had to scramble to find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  really want to do them all justice, so I'm gonna answer them next week ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to ... world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and equipment would be limited to extremely experienced graduate students and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6 ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT ... second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... ; and pulling, with trembling fingers, timid, slippery walls up to the sky

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to ... , life advice, or just want someone to talk to.” Diving student

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and ... flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who ... my way back to Berlin. I had booked a flight for Thursday night, since

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... -year course that attempted to cover art history and regular history ... adopted neoclassicism, an art style which in many aspects attempted to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011