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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  from run-of-the-mill public schools, people from the middle of nowhere ... all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of ... relatively smoothly. A few of the ECs come onstage at the end to introduce themselves and help answer some of the questions during our Q&A session. 4

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn ... Coming" by W.B Yeats "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot ... !"]listening to input from many different parts of the Institute

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... dynamic place full of lots of diverse people, so the admissions process

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... Machine": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow ... substantial portion of the Class of 2012 will be on campus, so it would actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past ... analysis is a big part of trying to process the outcome of a journey that a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  an assortment of other feelings – exhausting. My dad had the smart idea ... a lot of energy. When the seemingly endless elevator rides ended, the back of the truck was locked, and my key was returned to the front desk

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  the mature musk of well-aged Costco-quality imported vinegar, followed by the buttery sweetness of ripe apple meat, and finally dissolving into the passive-aggresive heat of cayenne powder. The result was wild

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... detail: when I finished making the table, from 18 feet of steel rod, we put

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the ... , along with the report[/caption] A lot of the report was redacted, as this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are ... preview of all the fun that we’re planning this April. Check your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... , so it’s possible that, under the stress of economic insecurity, my ... , or perhaps the more accurate statement here is that I view the process of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  made from a sort of nostalgia -- writing in the language of his land, his ... characters are humans instead of the oceans) my friend brought up a quote related to the series. It went along the lines of: the reason that it's

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not ... trays of cupcakes at their dorm, Senior Haus. I was invited to the baking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... . He still has to take the GRE and write a statement of purpose and all ... for the rest of eternity, those are totally the two I'd pick, so I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... the conclusion of freshman year, that student may choose from any of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  might be MIT. The time might be the middle of the semester. We’re from the ... Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... in the Z Center, but another thing to run in a nice shirt inside of a ... around the block three additional times with three different pairs of shoes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005