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• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  later entry and instead use this one to give you progress reports over the ... in the pre-mailing tasks. The letters have been printed (I held the stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... . Favorite movies: Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Philadelphia ... answer for you. If you're honest about who you are and what interests and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... , squat repeat Practice, wow I can’t do anything well today? Am I getting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  friends I can reach out to. And people probably think more highly of me in ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... warned me against ever taking it in the fall. I think the course staff

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  mathematician concluded." If you're interested, check out this article in the ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American ... mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd. Across the street

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days (two on each day with a day in the middle), my 21st birthday (between the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced MIT admissions officers will review your application in detail. We
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  . These students will be considered again in Regular Action. If you are a ... background, and discover how you define yourself as a student and a person. I ... Action applications than ever this year, 6,541 to be exact. Just as in

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  timespan and then can knock out the problems in no time. I now spend about ... learning but life in general this semester, and I can fully say I am ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It really sounds like an oxymoron to me, but hey, don't knock it til you try

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback ... CMS backend, which will provide you with (among other things) full syndication in various formats: RSS, Atom, etc. Check the right-hand column for

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... 're happy to check receipt of items if you allow sufficient time for ... item you are checking on and the approximate date that it was received by
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  shops here in Boston and Cambridge and give you the dish on what's hot and ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day, so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  wearing reads: "If you tell me what happens in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I will punch you in the face. I'm not kidding." Photos from ... Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Andre 3000, from OutKast, has a son (by Erykah Badu ... you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or maybe you'll be watching something on television, or Weird Al's White and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  My last few entries have been, well, very academic. You get the point ... work. I decided it was time for another "fun" entry. I mentioned in my ... is painted in the lounge, and in many other places on the hall, and he

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  night in February  Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby by Cigarettes After Sex ... will cry every time i hear this in the future   if you like music ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020