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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that ... . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  year, MIT students won three of the 32 scholarships. This brings MIT's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of ... . Huang, Newark [Delaware], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  First off a few notes of clarification. CME stands for Cambridge ... -MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities ... really amazing MIT students. Not all of us knew each other before we came

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  gatherings offer fantastic opportunities to meet some of your potential future ... admissions officers are celebrating the end of application season. Also, this ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now ... number of aspiring students has exceeded 18,000. As a result, our admit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us ... ! Every day, and from all over the world, we receive offers of lucrative ... One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing. This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  International University who was the head of a new VR lab there, telling us that ... Computer Graphics Research at University of Miami Learning from Sophomore ... professors from University of Miami, and got a positive response back from one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  University. In 1999, she received the National Academy of Sciences Troland ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  the annual conference of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston's Northeastern University. Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008