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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... students. Here it is: MIT Class of 2014. Join in a Live Chat!: This Tuesday ... our best to show you MIT. Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere What to do if you get an ugly corsage How to Treat a Pimple How to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... ," the heroes face a villain whose body is described as "an organic ... this subject. Thank you very much, Sam Much to my surprise, I received a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  at some subject, then you probably like it a lot, which is important in ... my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... ?" Sometimes they didn't know the difference, which is a tragedy that deserves ... challenging courseload in high school, that kid is certainly not going to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  ’m normally heading out. Sleeping is a big part of that—how can I feel normal if ... please go anywhere, anywhere that’s not here, in a way that felt very much ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  a hard place. But as they say, if your software can’t decide how much ... classes too. I want to learn as much as I can in as little a time frame as ... extensions in a row because the work kept piling up and days where I skipped

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park![/caption] Traveling in a van with reps ... in a lifetime opportunity to speak with so many institutions.” Thanks

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  we hold, we met the new maker in residence, who is dedicating a lot of ... to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let ... too much" in the words of a popular website --delicious chicken ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the homeless shelter just in time. The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter is the only student-run homeless shelter in the US. It was opened in 1983 as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Materials for Biology, which hopefully will be a blend of my interests in ... iconic red jackets). One of my favorite gifts to give out is a tire ... is a musical about the Harvard vs. MIT rivalry that two representatives

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it ... QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  . Making a documentary is such hard fucking work, but I've learned so much ... professor has emphasized in class is having a clear narrative structure -- a ... . Obviously this is...backwards and bad but it never really settled in that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  magnets. I hope he realizes how freaking cool a magnetized gown is. Not only ... photojournalized. In conclusion, because she is both associated with MIT and a ... balance out my weaknesses. That is, you need to be able to: 1. Drive like a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  in the admissions process; a ruling is [annotation note='The Supreme ... historically under-represented in STEM education. This is a crude standard, and ... the Court rules in a way that constrains how universities may compose

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  send in a CD recording of you performing (cassette tapes are also ... separate sheet of paper is most common. In general, third recommendations from a teachers do not provide much additional insight; the most helpful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams ... like the right one. it feels like something much, much older, like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020