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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... 'm sorry to say that I don't have any announcements about a decision date yet ... event this Thursday at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. I hope you'll be there! If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  .500: Senior Seminar in Music, but since I've never worked in a small ... to present a total of 6 dishes for tasting and judgment. I was incensed ... should feel lucky that we even get to bake apples anymore." But I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in ... makes me angry because adults will be like yOu wOn'T cArE aBoUt tHis iN a ... once a year to nothing. When I switched high schools in my junior year

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's, although that looked at solved a different computing problem.   In the 1960's ... of computing in the 1970's, before personal computers became popular

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  support! It's been a long month of spamming people I haven't talked to in ... , iPhones, Treos, whatever.. just be sure to do it before the deadline ... , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I ... testers: Good luck next week! For students on the waitlist: As I mentioned a ... we're still in late April, I don't have any news for you. I have no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a wonderfully noisy dream about a Course 10 '07 and a Course 10 '08 involved in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are ... I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  in awhile when I'm home for a break I run into another person who I ... kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... Center. I personally appreciated the strip, considering I'm in the camp of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full ... . While walking home from the student center, I saw a strange glow emanating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe ... There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... wasn't exactly sure what PES graphs were, so I just drew a rough sketch of what I thought might be a PES diagram and moved on. It necessarily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  ’s important to see the people you look up to engage in self-compassion. I know a ... build a simple, happy life in the Earth Kingdom.  The visual and ... , fundamental level. Just as the body fights infection, Zuko is engaged in a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  in a few hours. (I didn’t, the milk works) [caption id ... in a few myself, I went from being Anika she/her/hers, to Aniaih she ... begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  , except today in addition to all that I was excited about a shiny new CCD ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... it, and headed to lab. I try to go to lab once a week. Sometimes I can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008