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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... , there are a lot of things that need to happen before an application is ... MIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -crazed city of San Francisco. No matter how many tech companies I sent a resume ... blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... your left is the Lake City Amtrak Station." "Where?" I asked. "You missed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate ... application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently ... Old English is (like Latin, and unlike modern English) a case language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate ... curiously charming roundabout way, is freshmen advisors. When you arrive on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  want to do is sit still and go online (at least it was for me) but if that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice ... keeps cropping up every year around decisions times and can routinely be a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were ... we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... 'll update the freshman class profile page closer to Registration Day. Here's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of ... silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will probably never happen. Even more unfortunately, I am a ridiculously heavy sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  Random Hall is named "Destiny." Why would a floor be named Destiny? Well ... is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... was so excited about wishing you a happy April 31, because, as Ling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  with an asterisk. They should not list practice results or enter a superscore as a single sitting. Students should self-report scores from all
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  Gardens where the circus is actually held. Rose ’14, a Simmons resident ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  -Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... video if you will be offended in any way, this is a family friendly blog ... during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in English!) JSF is a really unique program. Unlike IAP Madrid, which ... ! The stage is slanted to give the audience a better perspective, but this ... to visitors. A private practice room. Ringing the ceiling is a balcony

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is ... enrollment decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can ... MIT, we don't just have 5n year reunions (where n is a counting number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  understanding of how public space is used by native Israeliesand immigrants. ... city planning. In the last 2 years alone, 110 A&P interns, including ... explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011