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• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  First, from the College Board: The last two registration deadlines ... fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  people, and I want to improve! So, on the first weekend after classes ... ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  to. Going in on the first day, I had absolutely no expectations. In my ... and talk to members of a specific sorority"]first party ... people who would go on to become part of my MIT family. On the first day, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into W20-491. We were the first ones to get to the room because we were too ... just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... summer time. I try to believe that stress doesn’t change me, so the bubbly, excitable, carefree girl I’m telling you to picture isn’t so different from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  first (and only) time. So...on the drive to Anaheim, I was in the ... ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself ... 'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog ... elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  failure often. My stance was challenged first when I applied to MIT (what an ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  the first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a ... "), we admitted 1715 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  something awesome to the first person who can figure out the origin of our ... of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  single morning and coming back to sleep at 2:00 am was doable for the first ... arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... you learning the language?  Kristina: When I first got to MIT, I jumped ... me the tools to take the first steps towards learning Chinese. Learning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  's been nine months since I first read that post, but I only got the time to ... between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  me and told me that the poem had spoken to them. I won first place and ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Secret to Being a Great Artist. <--The author shares the first fifteen ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018