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• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  We look forward to showing you what makes MIT so special! We offer in ... without a reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... Lounge in Walker; met some awesome people. Went to Senior Haus just in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• 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 ... , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice ... that I've decided to live my life as a boy, and will be getting a court

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes ... So supposedly, there's a weather machine that comes around every CPW ... , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate ... everyone who helped out![/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ' Guild). Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive. Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs). This calls for crowdsourcing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  /ladder constructions, and those in the trees. Niki '09 and I grabbed a bench. She ... night, and squeezing in doctor’s appointments wherever they fit. Helpful ... 3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... Student Center for a glazed stick. 11:25 - 12:54 PM: Party in lab where by

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT ... , check out this video from Vi Hart: (Did you know that Vi Hart is Khan ... 60 Minutes?) What do you think?  Are you sold on Tau?  Or are you a Pi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  the cool cars tomorrow. Did you know that a 10000 word paper is really ... Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in 2 hours. You really should try one. (That is me.) Dewey is the ... minutes sitting, slouching, kneeling, and wiggling around in various chairs

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on ... outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. I'll spare you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day. Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007