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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  time was had by all. I invited a fellow who is actually an alumnus of my ... Yep, I'm officially Course 11. A few interesting things have happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... article. There was a nice section towards the end of the piece with some ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  Culpepper, aka MIT's Maker Czar, will be giving a talk about how MIT makes ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho ... yours? In short, the T is normally a very reliable form of transportation ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  is awesome!). To be considered for a blogger position, you should email ... upperclassmen - please choose one of the following). Option A: Who is more ... to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  " Nance) understand that having Miles around is A GOOD THING! It was all ... you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel ... ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of OpenCourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... excitement in Boston now is like nothing I've felt before anywhere else. Yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  When the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  you may know, I'm a football fanatic, and since there is no lockout ... well, and who will do so frequently. If writing is a chore, so will ... warm! I spent last week on vacation on a lake with my family, where I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... It's been a while since my last entry. Right now I'm visiting my mom ... two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  . There is a deep trust placed in us by the MIT community, and indeed, by ... , came at an important time for our culture, and is one that resonated ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... academic preparation for MIT. If there is an extenuating circumstance that
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  took home a few lessons from the competition. Predominant is the fact ... bringing our A-game next year, though--so be prepared. Corn Dog, Jr. is on ... had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  internships as well. It was quite a spectacle, as 3500 MIT students and alumni ... way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a ... network with company representatives over a wonderful buffet dinner. It was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  understanding that the body is a sack of liquid and flesh. And trillions of cells ... . And if the quality is bad it is because I screenshotted it from a PDF ... This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege ... is fewer than the 33,796 who applied last year, before we reinstated ... review.  Of those 26,914 applicants, we have [annotation note="This is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023