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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  enough complaining. I am in a superb lit class that is tackling this book ... can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! I hope these ... Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for ... fully staffed over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is ... conclusions," Dr. Perelman said. "Because M.I.T. is a place where everything is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until ... . Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a Quest ... If you were selected as a QuestBridge Finalist but did not rank any
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  tie my shoes in the morning. There is no EXCUSE!" I have no excuse. It ... that, and still it's been a month because I've been either hosed, or just ... go do ridiculous things. I'd never seen a marathon before, let alone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC. Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... and other elements of engineering leadership that I’m learning in GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... ask, Oh, do you play hockey?" From there it was natural that I would learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  those interested in pursuing it as a career. That is one of the reasons we ... creates a "were all in this together" feeling. And that feeling is something ... In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius ... Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  line is a one-inch-wide nylon or polyester webbing that wobbles like ... metaphor is going. Finding balance in slacklining is, in this sense, a lot ... affirms that the whiteboard is indeed level (an accomplishment my roommate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  are on this topic, a good thing to keep in mind is that when you do call ... know one EC who told me that some of her applicants’ emails wound up in her spam filter. My suggestion is that if you email your EC and don

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  -efficient retrofits in low-income housing. I made a few site visits along the way. I visited the quaint historical residence that is now AMS Headquarters ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software Construction) this semester, which if you remember, I described as a "notoriously ... morning rather) a bubble of extreme happiness. And now I'm sharing that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  trying to imitate. And yes, that is how you spell "reply." But at the same ... now, we remember how cool and artsy we thought it was. *m a x i m u m c ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in ... : "Oh. Admitting any?" Matt: "Yeah, a few, I guess. Well, I've got to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  admissions blogger meeting, which primarily consists of a discussion about how ... EMBARRASSMENT as you realize during the discussion that you actually care a lot more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to ... that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... 's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of ... care for a baby, but I think wood slab ownership is the closest I’ve ever ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016