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• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday: ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  'll excommunicate you from MIT, lock you in a pillory, and melt the key MIT's nuclear ... engineering majors (do you know what an engineer is, really?), and a career fair ... for social chair because it had gone unfulfilled for so long, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  Guildenstern with an inflatable pool toy, swims around for a while, and then ... anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken ... with them and reprimand us for trying to steal merchandise. Oh, wait

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , sometimes mundane, and sometimes leave you with the feeling you have looked ... . Reuse is a mailing list for giving things away. People email out ... people leave what they don't need or want, and take what they do (a good

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  ’s Lounge (a room with some couches, a kitchen, and beds to sleep in) and have ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of ... undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  time I was ready. With no dead skunk aroma and a cup of Starbucks Venti ... for the warm welcome and cool Native American print t-shirt!) After a ... Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  for narrative's sake, because some facts are both qualitatively and ... framework with various friends, and often get a number of knee-jerk reactions ... ” friend. Ok, ok, that's a statement with MANY caveats. There are so many

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  , and then they brought out dessert. And it was gorgeous. A beautiful, sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green ... can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... building shook with a loud noise and a rattling sound persisted-- a pit ... what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  these conversations are a way for you and for us to learn about each other ... those interests, and think about why MIT would be a good place for you ... a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... Ragnar, my friend Allison C. '14's cat, on Loop, with a spider named Spooky ... , and one, which is actually a squash, from Russo's, the local produce

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  mitigation plan for solving some problems with critical materials. It was a ... , but I rediscovered my passion for discovery and engineering and made a ... plans and instead of staying home for a week after Israel as I had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a ... a coveted internship, job, or career. There’s SpaceX, 3M, Capital One ... a year ago if I’d study philosophy at Harvard, as well as read and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and started drawing a stick figure with legs. My classmates laughed ... into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... on the architecture career for quite some time now. But it has taken a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  a planner (I jot it down and never open the planner again), but mainly ... just means i have to prioritize earlier) I do keep a Post-It pad with me ... usually write them down on a Post-It note, and then stick it somewhere where

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  team and catching up with the project and I've delved into a mission design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each ... 've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007