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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  phrase because it negates the notion that a "year off " is a year ... (driving in Boston is a piece of cake compared to driving in India) were SO ... behind us. Yes, that is a camera sticking out of the top of his jet. Yes

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at MIT -- it takes up about as much time per week as a full-time job, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  ) is essentially a practice of executive discretion, no one knows yet if ... legal advice they need.   The MIT Mission, which is a touchstone for ... undocumented students are, how much they have contributed to MIT as students, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Development. I am going to help build a satellite! It is going to space! I am going to help build something going to space! This is a capstone class for ... ). It's a pretty good gig. My second job is working front desk in my dorm

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more ... USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  life a bit. This Thursday, the 2009 RingComm (Ring Committee) is holding ... about what we want to see on our Brass Rat. The Brass Rat is a big chunk ... drama groups in a production) as one of your classes, which I think is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... her in person. Since MIT is actually RIGHT NEXT TO Boston, unlike a lot ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... to a second round of wait list admissions. All of this is a standard

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  it immediately. My friend knew for a fact that, despite how much it ... rejected is how much the pity stings. In an instant everyone around me ... true. This is how I got rejected from my "dream school", and how I got

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  tapestry was necessary afterwards. By the way, it is technically not a ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  interactions (outside of my home) for a year, I'm not sure I know how to talk to ... , and spent time plotting out how to decorate my room (which may have a ... . Hopefully, this is one of the more dreary blogs I write for a while. It was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you ... learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... carefully crafted prose, while others take a much more casual approach to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  remarks that, Epsilon Theta is a small and close-knit co-ed fraternity. We ... Brookline. Epsilon Theta is more than just a residence; it is a community of ... neighborhood.   No. 6 House The No. 6 Club is a co-ed literary fraternity

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  this summer is living a fangirl's dream. I'm working with a TMG ... tonight. I'm heading to a skate shop this weekend so I can learn how to ... home, I'd just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  From Monty Python)" only lifted their spirits. Hockey is actually a ... 'd wait until the weather is at least a little warmer--after a surprisingly ... Dan: "They (the powers that be) talk a lot about how little SAT scores

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It ... museums, so a part of me did have a existential moment about how these ... to eat dinner at Ling Ling, which, as much as I hate to admit, was a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025