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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like ... -notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  to make sure she takes advantage of her new school's resources. ''I ... Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  high school who had become tired of staring at the bottom of a swimming ... Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... hope you're listening!   Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and ... ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  , nanotechnology and more. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and ... ; Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... my stomach folded into thin layers after most of my high school friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action ... for other schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  year, I was in charge of, and in high school and even earlier, I always ... satisfying. Some of my strongest memories from high school, alongside staying ... things -- for the last couple years of high school, I stayed quite

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... countries and four continents. The students come from top schools in applicant ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... to). -My Spring 2008 Classes (did you know we only have 18 school days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school ... …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  school recommendations, the report from your school and of course, the ... So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010