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• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but ... presentations when we're on the road, or come visit campus, we have a sign-in for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  ) opportunities as some more intense D-I programs are. I am a brother in a ... participate in UROPs and I have a pretty solid social life. So playing a sport ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  . Tonight, I took a break from the work I'm continuing to do with the ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . you-know-what out of me. I don't even remember the last time I drew a ... I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up ... . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... 220 TrueType font. 18.100B: Real Analysis I missed taking a math ... , and Law After several semesters, I finally have a chance to take a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  ? Also, I'm not sure if three is a huge hole in my floorboards somewhere or ... construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... I've been working with video since CPW wrapped up, generally ... putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my Mac

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  solar geeks are on this list I thought I should share… it’s a [Kp9] night tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing ... comprise 4 out of 5 people from our total eclipse crew. What a celestial

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i.e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time ... . (A bunch of '11s have written to me advocating for Snively so I should

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  on or before January 1. However, I strongly discourage procrastination ... applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you should have the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... you what dorm to live in (could be forked from this which I'm ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when ... twinkle in his eye. We're both morning people, if I found myself walking up ... 's, drinking a coffee and reading the newspaper, comfortable in the quiet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here's what I found ... ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a ... to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... path just a few days before. I got to Alewife within an hour or so. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... day later, in which I couldn’t manage to arrive at a museum in Venice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... Madelyn Grant All I wanna do is fly Why should I stick around? With my feet

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston skyline outside my window. You should know that in Boston, the weather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012