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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... diverse in their interests. Some universities admitted into individual ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  friends of the community. When movies were a more universal experience in ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  10^-27 seconds, which means, in technical terms, that the universe ... This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  -acknowledged among Sensible People to be the most awesome objects in the universe ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads, from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  offers, and this year becomes the toughest year in our history. And so ... process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• 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 ... 't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat ... away. In fact, he even began adding his own contributions to the project

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  be admitted to that particular university at that particular time. In ... In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered ... would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for the first time! Established in 1872, it's the oldest public arboretum in ... vines. It was designed in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted, whose

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... move around their schedules, but in truth, my main goal for this next ... responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  on the East Coast. Friday Head near Iowa State University in Ames and ... Saturday, MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about ... word shows up constantly in our language. But perhaps closure is the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  . Ignatius at Seattle University. Simmons Hall, in case you don't already know ... majoring in Course 4: Architecture at MIT (as you know, I eventually received my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... in the mail; you'll wait for your decision in the good old US Mail. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... think it was pi beta phi, and standing on top of those low brick walls in front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022