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• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... school; she works in their admissions office. As it turns out, I had just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember her from giant fish fame. She also doesn't cook. In fact, I think she

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  Hi everyone! Just finally got caught up with answering your questions ... on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday ... table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  As you may or may not know by now, this past semester has been a ... most creative minds. It all culminated this weekend in the light festival ... ado, LIGHTS in the river! LightBridge Liquid Archive

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in ... extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  you'll find the ones you enjoy, and you can drop the other things pretty ... conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised ... experience I have had at MIT, if not in my life. It is hard both academically

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  stings to know you can't control the in-betweens, and like water bubbling ... cries. The saliva that pools in the back seems to drown you. It’s your vision blurring, hot with tears as the salt stings in your eyes and you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  counts, because my IAP was… very packed. I knew from the beginning that I ... .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... for like half of January after coming back from Russia in the beginning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  someone you trust in your corner really matters when shit hits the fan, y ... ’ll continue to keep you guys updated on life in the woods, hopefully in better ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  of the Moon album covers you can find in East Campus. Hint: The highest ... mural, and a section of their hallway called Black Bemis. As you can ... colorful wall of hands, but upon closer inspection you can actually notice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn't accept applications for first-year admission if you ... bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... emails and watched last night's Colbert Report on my laptop in my underwear wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  much can change in that four-year gap. The summer before my senior year ... songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  next installment! Typical London row houses When you're in London ... Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can ... I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... see in the world and make every second count."]Dennis Sykes ... I never liked Superman. I thought he was too idyllic.  If you asked

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018