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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an open Q&A. We'll take as many questions as we can and do our best to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On Friday, Linh ’13 and I took a train to a nearby city, R√ºdesheim, where Di ... every time, it makes more and more sense to me. Because the school had a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... Floor Activities Fund. Basically, to promote dorm unity, if you bring a certain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  .  All you have to do is put a banana in a freezer for about a day and ... to get good food and produce!  Every Tuesday there is a wonderful ... 's market in Haymarket, just a fifteen minute T ride away!  It is so simple to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone ... to hunt down stumble upon Zendaya when I can barely speak, look like a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... enough to give me a small idea. it must feel worse to receive decisions ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... not know this (kudos to you if you know what this is as a high schooler ... as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch ... that Will Smith turned down a scholarship to MIT to pursue his rap career ... a bit goofy. "Who wants to see a Mobius strip?" he says to us, as he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  sure you need to give your real call sign” “That’s totally a real call ... to see a group of sketchy looking people huddled around a small table ... never works permanently. Every once in a while, somebody tries to clear up

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  went over. I felt like a detriment to my three-person team, as I ... psets without collaboration. 18.01A is the same. It seems I always have to ... calculus problems are. I even texted a couple of friends and browsed OCW to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  time and work required in order to receive a Ph.D. and its adverse ... 's education as a high-level mathematician affected her playwriting or acting, to ... 't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... neatly to the story of the brownies; a few days ago, I decided to try my

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... the ground. I was going to write a blog about this, but then I took seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... ! Do you provide a fee waiver for the CSS Profile? MIT is not able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... times. It’s too easy to forget, more than a year into the pandemic, that ... announced a “return to normal” next fall. I’m getting the second dose of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... 't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... 's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what ... most forest-y, most outdoors-y place you've ever been to, and dump a few

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  next four years and what made me disappointed to leave. CPW was a unique opportunity to meet new people everywhere and to spend 24 hours a day learning ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010