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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  trying to find the creative will to write application essays. The first ... Admission's face with crude images, and I guess that was the first step to ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  class before I did… So I came clean and asked to attend the first lecture ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  … Taylor Swift’s songs came to me for the first time at exactly the right ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... belongings I hauled to campus my first year of college was a cleaver carefully ... impossible to put a finger on. I first hit something during the fall of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... Artificial Intelligence Meets Mon 1:30 - 3pm First-year Discovery class Gender ... are gender and race? What happens when we start to measure and model

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  something else to the table. Listen first, talk second. With full attention ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to our jobs. Throughout the day, the first wonderful surprise of the ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... 's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any possibility that there might be some cons to the pros - to me, MIT was perfect

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  options. When I thought about where to apply to college, I started first ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... with the results. You decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  applications so I don't have to survive on ramen alone in my first year of grad ... (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  Introducing the world's first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... Halloween, everybody! Cam: First, we have a Halloween story. There are two

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  your first calc pset. Just be excited for now. =) To Jess and thekeri ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team ... largest of which maybe measures up to 1/5 of this one. One of the first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008