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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  goodbye to the room I had in New York, at one point asking my parents to ... back at my parent’s home in New York for four weeks. I’m not the only ... . He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden ... at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... requirements at once. On the other hand, it is offered every semester, so it ... , useful information here: the "J" at the end of the subject number indicates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... of the most amazing women I’ve met at MIT. Throughout the past year ... of the waitlist. At that point, I was kind of jaded with college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  friend says that at the beginning of a program, he looks at the awards they ... around New Year's. We're going to take a tour of Hampton Court palace; way ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... many different universities to see what kinds of programs and ... disappointed to see that many universities were very interdisciplinary at the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  almost cried tears of joy. My new machine is a Lenovo Yoga 730 (the newest ... years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... been retrofitted with an i7 processor, 256 GB of SSD storage, and 16GB of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the ... Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... type of person." During the beginning of my time at MIT, I struggled with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  slice of vegetable-topped focaccia and motioned at the bread with the ... at the slowness of my Spanish dredged up word by word, but I think ... been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs ... year at MIT is time management in all senses of the phrase. The ... firmly anything at all), it's been reassuring to hear the affirmation of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... tell by looking at a toad how far he will jump; second, the process of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  an offsite meeting at the University of DC, meeting with leaders of the ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions ...   Week of May 30-June 5 Commencement week at MIT! The Class of 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  idea to come up with for our app. I would just kind of throw spaghetti at ... , at least in terms of multitasking. 34. Readily communicate personally to all members of a group to feel unity. - Exactly Me Looking at my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers ... Technology. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  in New York. However, as the spring semester went on, I realized that a ... explore this new area and new people without the constraints of a hectic ... I love, I tried new restaurants with friends, I got lost at the MFA

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  train to New York City too often. Mama's Boy, Dustin Lance Black, 2019 ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021