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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  whether the job nets joy or sadness as a function of time. A few hours ... thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is ... night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we ... reached the first of 75 overlooks; Raphael (the driver) pulled our car off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some ... campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2 ... Committee) presents a showing of "The 40 Year Old Virgin" in 26-100. 10:00 PM

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute ... grade of one. The longest, about 400 words, got the top grade of six. In ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... Calc. Over the course of the year, a disturbing cycle emerged. We'd have a few ... thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of ... of the day. [carousel image1="122019" image2="122011" image3 ... since most people start their day on one of the shorter paths, we

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just ... ? What's 'The Evil Dead?' Xena what?" Well, actually, Ruth kind of knew who ... was in town (and she is the one of the biggest Xena fans in all recorded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... of things that refill my will to live, both with 4 songs. The longest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... exercise...) As we learn, the impressive-looking parts of parkour have ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  limited amount of time to design, build, and program a robot to compete. The ... participate. After a lot of back-and-forth with the coach - and essentially ... my team about the odds of an underwater challenge. I wouldn’t yell

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building ... was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... startup scene and meeting more and more influential people. The center of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of chairs, broken only by two sets of stairs. As you go down toward the front

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly ... difficulty in integrating into a German community; the vast majority of people

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t-posing. a little silly looking back, but you must kill the part of you that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006