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• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . The barista is a young woman wearing an apron, her long, blonde hair in ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... this stayed the same. I started making a base page with a simple log in ... in a database mapping usernames to base64 image strings. The client

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  is a village in Kaffa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. I went there several times ... . Muti also has a water problem. All the water in Muti is delivered through ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... is the ultimate end of living, if not virtuous activity? Or, in a more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  Boston. Anecdote 3: One of my friends who lives in an apartment in a bit ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It’s who you are that really ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to ... project in silent films, or where the camera focuses in a frame) have their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  there was a girl who went to my high school and lived in my neighborhood ... usually a lot of what is needed to succeed is based on what other people ... antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  powerful one. Giving a living space autonomy is one thing, but remember who ... someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... you down in a big way—although that happens—but doing difficult

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , who was also a floorpi resident, and how he did a speedrun through all ... , and SL5 were in service. CJ: We filled a couple blackboards following ... route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering ... ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  medical school in the world knows that MIT is a tough place, and that ... question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... medical school in Fall '12 were asked to answer a series of questions to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . By the end of the day, 2 East succeeded in making 2,925 cookies, a ... and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019