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• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  , according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word ... who asked me about life at MIT, Life & Culture is a great tag. And ... . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... President Obama were forced to realize themselves through a more creative

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... the Dogfish Head Brewery. We took a tour of the facility and saw how ... other graduate. The fraternity bond is a bond for life. And the MIT family

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular ... substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  influences your relationships with print material. Is a viewbook as useful to ... Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... , much like a tsunami, that controls all adults regardless of social class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  , but this one is much more special than last year's (you might hear about ... think how I was attending these events with my friends as a freshman and ... a giant Trojan Duck (yes it is exactly what it sounds like: a GIANT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and learn more about their roles as Admissions Interns? If the answer is yes

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  ! (yes it is on a different youtube channel, unfortunately I lost the ... classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  horses (nope, whew) + MIT Send-off Here are a gazillion pictures from Gilroy Garlic Festival 2005: The entrance is flanked by two port-a-potties. A little bird tells me that between 120,000 and 150,000 people attend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... Shire.” On the other, it reads: “a true friend is someone who thinks that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  how to ride a bike, so I had to imagine Maxwell's equations as bikes and ... It's been a rough and challenging December and semester overall, both physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... college. After qualifying for a scholarship program, he traveled from Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  spy a Lydia in the background! Basically, the moral of this story is to ... opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start ... land learning how dragon boat paddle techniques differ from canoeing or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... downtime (besides playing with Legos) is watching the Colbert Report, which is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how ... storytelling - and that my major combination is pretty rare. Explaining how my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to ... is “plant” (pronounced like “plang-nt”). I’m not a linguist, but I bet ... I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  Garfield has Spider-Man on lock. How to Win Friends and Influence People A ... in how a few greats, such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie, ran the country and their businesses. This is a must read for anyone who

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... . Walking through campus itself is an experience that I appreciated a lot when ... cancelled and also cooking is cancelled, that opens up a solid 3 hours of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  : Here is a picture of my cat: His name is Oreo and I miss him so much ... So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018