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• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of ... to apply Early Decision to the second school I toured; that's where I

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... . Now I know that there's much that I don't know, and once the notions of ... fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  that), what if I have a tube, and it's just too big to fit into the ... the same class and left to think about how our fates were still unknown ... and searched all the counters and drawers for a key that might quite

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... have the official form that you'll need to sign and send back by May 1. The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  , A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... . There you will see the name of your EC and the best means to contact them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  that this is not a feel-good post. i do have many strong opinions on the ... stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think ... she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  of a Showgirl, and after that, Taylor Swift on shuffle. The New England ... a little box, and, with that, I was officially off the grid ... , so that means that a bunch of living groups and clubs and teams take

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it ... , but I bet I’ll feel the same way a lot while I’m at MIT. More than that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  . Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there ... there, and the Olympic Museum is there. ... mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  toilets, the other downside is that there seem to be a very sparse number of ... competition stems from the fact that "katsu"　(カツ） is a homophone for "to ... にぎり、nigiri - the kind that you're used to with a rectangular blob of rice and a piece

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... (and the occassional Wii game) that I've always loved, from A Knight ... there are a couple of CDs that mean a lot to me (from Regina Spektor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is something going on and articulate clearly what is it that you want to know ... minute and forget all the answers that their texts purport to be telling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country ... and the Infinite Corridor: MIT's Main Entrance: Lobby 7 aka 77 Massachusetts Avenue A Glimpse into Boston from the Harvard Bridge: Surely, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton-Conner. The other apartment is only ~20 steps away and always accessible, so I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that ... those things that make MIT special and unique. So, I hope in the Q&A ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  . Anyways, this is a long and not super relevant way of explaining the format ... Massachusetts, and I wanted to live close to the MIT campus – about a 30-minute ... than I could. Climbing is the best excuse for my friends and I to get off

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... like a grown up?" i've thought about this question on-and-off over the ... a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022