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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... - Christina's, Toscanini's, JP Licks, Herrell's. How it's such a walkable city ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are ... smoothies, people working and as Zayyan shows me, there is a sandbox in one of ... Airbnb. The Airbnb is really beautiful. It is a cute 2 storey house with 4

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  In the news around the country, there's a story from the Associated ... published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage ... perfection "is making our children sick," the MIT dean of admissions told a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  . Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... . The group will gather in Dr. Hockfield's reception area in 3-208 at noon

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... . (Admittedly, this is not a long list compared to the number of supervisors in ... work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  communities in general is how much care goes into making the first year at MIT ... 's truly care about how you do in the class. If they notice a decline in ... MIT career learning in small class sizes and with a personal connection

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  5K with Brad, who is a marathon runner like myself. Sadly, he became a ... -friendly town in the world and a bustling, vibrant city. CPW taught me a lot ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  have never made before. (Gershenfeld is also credited in Minority Report and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  ? right? Eh my state of mind is very much a work in progress. And as the ... . It’s a real heartbreak. But as they say, there is something good in ... much it can handle. Only so much food you can stack in a plate before it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... representatives, and meet professionals working in a variety of fields, including

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  species. Art is a verb. Art is about ideas as much as aesthetics--as much ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... 't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  head upstairs, where I tuck myself in a mutebox, which is like an ... design process is in the works, and it’s been interesting to see how all ... I can be the young intern who is distinctly swimming in a bra and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close ... experience and zero clue how to set boundaries and communicate in a healthy way

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... energy and the environment." Today, that responsibility is embodied in the ... opportunities for students interested in making a difference - so if you're at all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a ... much more relaxed in general. we also spent our Saturday checking out a ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022