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• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  the car's launch in 2002, wrote that it "looks like a wagon for the old ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a ... emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  't officially registered for the marathon (there are a couple barriers to entry ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ... ,000 students, 40% above the average for college students.) For his entire tenure ... for the University of Southern California. “I just got worn down

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  . Susanna '05 changes tracks on a CD for a music class. Notice the expression ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the ... , who wrote the song specifically for the library. Side note: Harbison won

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's not just for engineers. Undergraduates in the Dept. of Urban Studies and ... to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years ... might do in Course 1, civil engineering (see the Center for Transportation

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... the total votes, thanks to what the official Doonesbury Web site called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app-destroyer

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  guys?" they call you a week later for an assessment. the person on the ... nice," you say. "okay," they say. "it looks like the next in-person slot ... surprised, because the backlog for mental health help at this school is insane

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  .  From the letters I would write for my grandparents overseas in elementary ... "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... 's good for your productivity. Eat your meals in the dining hall. A day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  lot of press for this lately, between the radio show and a Boston Globe ... scenes of male and female nudity. Yet for all the show's titillating ... Sociology 101 meets Psychology 101. [...] MIT officials said the class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  not need to rely on a desktop for hefty exports and renders. Once the ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... for the day were complete. That process of entering a super

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  could roll it out and press it into the pie tin on bake day. The official ... point, before baking, the pie still looked alright. It also took ... didn't lounge around and watch adventure time while waiting for the pie

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... 'd park myself and do some hardcore, pomodoro-style studying for 7.05. I ... easily be mistaken for it. And the rest... Well, the rest is the work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... , but if you can't be there, the award will be mailed to you.) So for those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official" MIT offerings. Post what you play and what you're looking for. For example, Kiersten and her friend Juan are looking for bass and drums. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  Boston area, but I'll keep looking. The other alternative is Yale, which ... code, too, Syed!). Look forward to seeing you in the fall! Confused wrote ... lecture (and other) classes, there are many places to turn for help, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for ... . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  any additional students for the Class of 2020. We have seen all the ... ). Looking back now, it was a great fit for me and I had an amazing experience ... It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  costumes. For legal reasons, their costumes were officially in the style of ... . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible for hosting Campus Preview Weekend. So once decisions are out, the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024