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• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  I know folks love to see the numbers, so we've updated the Freshman ... . Check it out! (If you were looking for the Admissions Statistics, just hold on for a little while longer...) Incoming Freshman Class Profile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... , I have a great joke. Q: Why was six afraid of seven? A: Because seven ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  ). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  0:08 Our deadline 0:22 What happens during an interview 1:30 What to wear 2:16 How much does the interview matter?? 4:16 What if I bomb the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to ... first: Prepare a double layer strawberry and dark chocolate cake, and ... EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  in the snow in Killian Court. This year, it was a completely different story. If President Hockfield and Casey were playing in Killian today ... release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up and left. Soymilk, cold and packaged and carried in my backpack, as I ... water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is ... law school this fall. So when I saw this article in Technology Review, I ... up a number of firsts. Raised in Baltimore by a single mother who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday: ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still ... progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the ... Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin ... Green The Muses - a female a cappella group - offered these options: 1. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I ... Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit ... holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be ... with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  this past weekend. I hope you guys had as much fun as I did! A quick update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to ... Bloggers party. If I shrink it down to fit here, you won't be able to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... bus stop when I arrived in the morning (which I found slightly odd

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn ... final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this ... who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... .009. So I asked my floor, B1, if anyone had a pink dress I could borrow. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007