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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to My Museum of MIT The Objects That Define MIT, imo

  

  This post is inspired by this New York Times article. Like all good ... satirical, and entirely my opinion. Some of these are MIT specific, and some ... . Why actually write stuff down when you can fake write it down, with

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  , three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national edition! Also, for those of you wishing for teleportation powers so you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  also has the flagship store of Cereality, profiled today in a New York ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that I appreciate. I'm not one of those people who rambles on about how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  , ever since the new version of the TOEFL came out, no center in Puerto ... other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  universities, MIT has a quota for the number of international students it can ... Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  .  with all of that said, there is something iconic about new york that ... that no instagram had on me. being in new york gave me a lot of whiplash ... irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your ... College Board Code (for SAT and TOEFL) is 3514 and our ACT Code is 1858. If ... are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of year, respect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  of Steven Universe The Movie singing live at New York Comic Con ... . Watching all of Caleb Hyles Steven Universe Covers We found a very nerdy ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  : Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... should I take? A: You have the option to take the SAT, ACT, or TOEFL for your first test requirement. We recommend the TOEFL if you have been

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting ... this summer. In the beginning, I braved the Boston streets in a week of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005