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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours away from MIT by road. My family has limited funds and no car, so I was ... juniors. So I coughed up some cash and shuttled between nine different

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  a chocolate martini when he comes to the states!), and forming ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... living group and my hall and everything surrounding MIT culture, now lives

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  from many different states with many different characteristics. I sit ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help me out if I'm not already familiar with a community (and you'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of the talk was, "Rights and Responsibilities: The University Connection ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  doing research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (she's course 12 and ... and management science What else are you doing this summer? I'll be working for Lockheed Martin as an engineer and project planner when i get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... and socially confident, and you lose points when you do something cringe ... MIT and experience an assortment of campus life and events

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  state school and thrive! You can go to a community college and thrive! A ... star and cultural icon John Waters. I love his movies and what he's done for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour ... to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is best known for its ... . It's otherwise known as the coolest and most useful project ever, at ... NHGRI and had headed the Human Genome Research project. At the NHGRI

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  (adcoms from colleges and universities, GC's from high schools, independent ... year) and attend classes and networking sessions. There's a "college fair for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  NGO, and that the university had not been in session until about two ... refugees and university students attended classes together. We returned to ... meeting, as well as meet with students from Dale's cousin's university and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  continuous terms (SB, MS, and now PhD candidate) at the Institute, I have found ... yourself. I joke around with “renewing my contract” with the Institute, and ... The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper (established in 1861

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  , reliably[/annotation] kept the office — and the Institute — going.  And so I ... the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... almost 8,000 emails to students, teachers, guidance counselors, and others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film came highly recommended, and overall I'd have to say I liked it. After it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  wear out and you would go back to the ground state.  and so, it doesn ... then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of beauty,  it is as though with this overwhelming pain and love and beauty

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard—littered with trees and illuminated by flashing, multicolored lights—the East Side ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional

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

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  (General Institute Requirements) and while there isn't much leeway in what classes are ... GIR. With 3.091(Solid State Chemistry) and 5.112 (Principles of Chemical ... Chemistry. 3.091 has an "emphasis on solid-state materials and their

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011