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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  walking up the steps to Lobby 7 every morning. That was a habit that started ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on ... MIT is an amazing place and having the chance to discuss what, to me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  found myself a new neck and decided to consume a mango from the MIT Farmer ... , and discovered at 9:18 AM that I had a press ticket to a Polaroid press ... camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  one type of plane, the 737, and on each 737 there is one seat to rule ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  and have a plan of how you’re going to get the rest once you’re here. It ... to the front desk of your dorm, and all you have to do is go up to whoever’s sitting there and ask them to get it from the package room for you

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  since the inception begins to question, what is there left to salvage? I ... to pretend they didn’t. My mom has always told me that crying is a sign ... is trying to achieve, why I’m still standing there taking their bullets

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb ... braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the ... best kind of fun. And so when Snively suggested that our annual beginning-of-the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Tell us about the ... ? Now, I'm on record as saying that the college essay is often one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  work to maybe get to where he is one day, and at the end of the day, no ... eyes and realize that I am as smart as I choose to be. And it is my own ... 'm doing it to myself: no one else is. And maybe that's what I need, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  that MIT is a dynamic place and that any new member of the community ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  choose to enroll somewhere else. That's a statistic. But zooming in, there ... free to keep in touch and talk about all the amazing things that happen ... , talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... east campus to support the students living there, is just really awesome ... the class, and later tonight they're going to give a presentation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... until you realize that you need to balance many factors and enroll a diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation ... can rise to the occasion. You can plan for a full and vibrant future in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  Product: This is a picture of our final plan that I had to pitch to the ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and sparking. This could lead to a major recall. Our task was not to find the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... the press release you see up there - and realized that the blogs were ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  in an auditorium and celebrating a man that is the American dream. You ... .” “But if [the refugees] are willing to wait in line for 2 and a half years ... his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  take a leap of faith. After all, the contract is with the landlord, and ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they ... the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  help me out if it's a rough week and sleep is not up there on the ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006