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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... things. First: some of you may follow alien/human (and MIT PhD student ... world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen of MIT's new president, a big Red Sox winning streak... a pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  drove up from New York with (way too many) of my remaining bags and boxes ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are ... 's always open. I might even have cookies or pie. Those of you who want to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... asleep and the story continued. Eventually, I’d be wrenched out of the world that the random firing of my neurons had created for me, but, for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I ... this winter, as Boston has certainly received its fair share of snow. (As

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  . There will be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City ... Hello MIT Class of 2014! Here are some things that admitted students ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... skimpily dressed people; if you know of others, do share Let's take this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK" and their two children chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK" back. Conclusion: It ... juice. I counted caffeine drinkers as people who were holding a cup of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Est-ce que je suis prêt? Peut-être. Je dédie ce post aux chatons, parce qu'ils sont trop mignons à se noyer :(

  

  Julia, une amie et une étudiante à Brown University, pour dîner. Nous ... veut commencer une maison de quartier en New York avec les jeux de

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of universities including MIT filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017