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• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Friday • Head up near Iowa State University in Ames and hear about life in ... . Beginning Saturday MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2015. If there's one in your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  . What if there was an in-universe explanation not just for why superpower ... valuable insights about writing in general from the essay. Jesus. Right from ... them. They are checking the new grass mower… Out in the fresh air and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  prestigious universities to support it - at least in formal settings - is big ... quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the ... ! Something Old... The Nance Effect is immersed in the annual road trips ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying in Women's Independent Living Group (WILG).  These past few days, the ... Fahrenheit. Still, it's my first summer spent almost completely in New England

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022