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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , but is a tenured professor in Math at MIT. (Wow.) [Not as wow as being ... calling, who prefers to remain anonymous, insists it was a "sincere ... vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  directly to our site; and Mirat Shah, a junior who is studying abroad via the ... manage to deliver them to me in html-friendly ASCII). So when you see a new ... read a few of them. Seventh, American Idol is back. 'Nuff said. So... I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  situation. Each individual in a dorm or FSILG has far less control over who ... ), consensus is not easy. I think living in the dorm fostered a certain sense of ... -effective, convenient boarding with a strong sense of community, such that people stay in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... and interesting people who want to go to MIT. For me, it's a fun and ... , yes, there is a disappointingly low admit rate. Believe me, meeting all

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... common feeling; one that feels like riding a stationary bike, which is, you ... , and, yes, having a "favorite art museum" is incredibly pretentious but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested ... . For some reason it uses a different service than phones do now, so it is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  and accepted in a way I never really was before. Is everyone at MIT ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  and/or poop, or 3) dry and understated. PDL is a combo of 1 and 3. In ... . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... forward a few years, when Matt mentions that Admissions is creating a new

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  write down in your application. This is okay. Just be sure that when you ... passed. While highly recommended, the interview is not a required part of ... such documents (there is a time for this later). Do not worry about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don ... beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining ... live in one of these residence halls in order to eat there (which is good

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Her Awesomeness), who is temporarily blogging in the TIM the Beaver blog before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don ... being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  cream. We took a tour of the ice cream factory + got free ice cream ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in nearly a year. Things perked up slightly when I walked into my Delta

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political ... participate in interfaith dialogue sessions as a member of the Addir Fellows ... Simon & Garfunkel coming in as a close second.  I like doing impressions

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  is even legal in Massachusetts, less than a block from some cops who ... riding a bike without a helmet is only illegal in Massachusetts if you are ... , I was in charge of the treasury table, a nice secluded table in a nice

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011