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• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  , rec letters, and the Statement of Purpose. The SoP is kind of like the ... voice, stories, and dreams are going to be perceived by the committee of ... out by the mortifying ordeal of being known. Being vulnerable to a bunch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ... establishment of the Rainbow Lounge the MIT students, staff, faculty and guests ... apologize for the quality of the photos. I did the best I could, but hey, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death ... that must be paid for the passions of this earth

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The student activism of 1968-1969 — against the Vietnam War, against nuclear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and ... the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of students who were affected by the problem. For those of you who are applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What is the mail address/fax number?

  Email: [email protected] Fax: 617.687.9184 Mailing address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E38-200 Cambridge, MA 02139
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki ... trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the hotels in the area were booked, but luckily some friends of mine were able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... the snow down 3rd Street, a hotbed of the eco-friendly hipsteria that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice ... ) < P(Gimmel on the dreidel). Chetan asked a series of interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  -final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... actually started studying for 6.046 the day before the last day of classes. I ... marks? Or mastering the material for the art and pursuit and love of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... view of  the Charles River during the Fast Light Festival and it also ... exhibit in February of the work of New York-based artist Cheyney Thompson

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... a bran flake when I saw that the first sentence of the description was "Ditch the workout, Join the Party" (with that capitalization). "A one of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... like the idea of a "journal" -- a book just about what I do or feel every ... from last week. Now, you might ask, what's the point of a notebook if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013