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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  /Donald Trump impersonations. MIT's alumni admissions interviews are not designed ... are here in part to counteract the stereotype of the intimidating ... Ben's blog you've seen that Admissions Officers are normal people, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  highly selective universities are now need blind, that wasn't always the ... ." There are currently more students from California at MIT than from any ... yesteryear are long gone, allowing more fair play in the overall admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  with DKE! Conveniently, DKE and PBE's buildings are actually physically ... -campus and walk across the bridge to Sig Chi. There are many frats located off ... are greeted by our next two tour guides: Sanjay L. '25 and Jack G. '25

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  a breather from classes, Admissions Officers are in our seemingly ... days[/annotation] are tied to these blogs in some way, even if we didn ... as much as we are. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9eNMyRlk[/embed]

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order ... ']yurt[/annotation] Foraged [annotation note='cinnabar chanterelles! (which are safe and edible ... with a robot Hosted a [annotation note='these are as cathartic as they

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  cooler than that. Arms Are you tired of walking? Did you skip arm day because you had to write up that pesky problem set in LaTeX? Are you bitter ... 's that dinosaurs are so cool that there's nothing wrong with bringing them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are ... maybe even their journey of figuring out who they are :) [image

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  , they’ve collectively forgotten that there are other people using it. You ... of its route so there may be as many as 800 that are going out, and ... are other reasons, too: A mechanical issue or a passenger getting a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... distance.    We are delighted to welcome so many of our students to the MIT ... tried to do the right thing. I can only say that there are [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  admissions blogger? The best representatives of MIT students are MIT students ... high standards and great autonomy; the blogs are a specific example of ... mandate expansively. In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of ... convey who you are (or some aspect of who you are). If I, the reader, am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT community by alums ... , and last-minute decisions are always fun.       Side

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  History Department and Concourse program. Here are some pictures I took. Day ... fake deep caption like "not all who wander are lost"     ... columns are holding up clouds       Day 7: Athens (once

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and ... “think big” about new ideas and possibilities, and are able to actualize ... try out new things and demonstrate that you are well rounded. Try

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup ... . Han are pretty nice people and have co-taught this class for six years ... -and-learning-about-science-documentary class I took last semester. Most of our assignments are video projects

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once ... ’s “Defying Gravity” and “For Good” are NOTHING like what you see on Glee. So

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is ... . These are not normal occurrences in Destiny kitchen and are not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  have our own power plant and all of the wires are underground), so as ... are the National Weather Service's Radar Full Resolution Loop, which is ... are all quite sturdy and have lots of shelter. We have loads of police

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute ... undergrads, are often so swamped with work from our technical classes that - I ... enjoys teaching MIT undergrads because we are so astute and sharp in our

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  list-y theme of this post, there are three reasons I used the career fair ... , unless you want a summer internship. Even then, apparently companies are ... material are the same things that will convince a company like Microsoft or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010