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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... : Great! I am almost finally done with watching the Lord of the Rings

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  have to experience the torture of filling out infinite applications again ... of stress from this job-hunt season. In just under 4 weeks, all the ... culmination of the first three years’ hard work is going up against the dice of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new ... all of the places I'd be traveling in the next five days, some of them

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  the final numbers- aka # of applicants, # admitted, # waitlisted. i know ... can. Alice McLorec asked, "When is the RSI letter of notification going ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... Anna H. '14, the MIT blogger, spend the weekend of Jan 13-15 doing? Your ... to the site, and but the blinding array of colors with which she color

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in ... , this was the sort of thing that we thought was really really cool. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and ... but by the rumbling chorus of a collective, semi-sentient blogger ... Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline ... the applications have been read. So don't worry. A couple of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance ... Saturdays and inspiration, check out the massive number of people who were at ... classes lasting about one hour. The subject of the class can range anywhere

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  lots) of mail. (The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that our early ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... many passion indicators - but I emphasize one of many. When I was on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  work 9-5, hit the gym, eat dinner, and have the rest of the evening to ... the ease of wellness when the fall term comes around, but I know I ... to visit me, let me know. Food I don’t love the activity of cooking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint ... nothing during my sophomore year. The bottom drawer of my desk is filled

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses ... , the “score” is determined by word2vec, a cool way of quantifying the ... guesses : o ) Perhaps one of the reasons that I like Semantle so much

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... captured the essence of what motivated me, what I said above, what I couldn

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  the maze of corridors and first hearing about "the Infinite." And, of course, I still remember the chirping crosswalk in front of 77 Mass Ave. Fast forward to 2007. I am standing underneath the shadow of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  creeping around the back of my mind during all of [annotation note ... fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025