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• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  !  But with REX being the opening salvos of the school year, this time ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... last many months helping their children survive the process of applying

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  thought of myself as exceedingly driven. High school Shorna was ambitious ... Shorna sets in. In high school, people were scared of me. I’ll sometimes ... , outspoken, vivacious person. I think many of my high school friends might

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a ... lot more exciting than either of them expected. I really liked the music ... about it, but I saw MTG's production of Cabaret early this year which I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  school students), and Cascade (a five-weekend set of classes for high school students)."]It is one of many programs organized by ESP ... reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  understanding of and flexible with late documents from schools than with late ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  also interested in high school research competitions, including (but not limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... their waitlists. Large waitlist movement at a few schools has ripple

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  high school musical (apres nous le deuge, of course!). I haven't been ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  graduate school applications. I talk about my research in a bunch of ... the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the ... constituitively incapable of understanding, is people who choose other schools over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... of the hallway during rush hour.   When the MBTA bus finally arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022