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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... in 2009. Yep. Definitely not a musical instrument. I got a little ... little timpani player. "He's the best timpani player I have ever seen in an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a ... . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... “Essential Services” according to MIT Housing can be found here. Visit all 11

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  also wrote:  In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives.  Whatever the outcome, I very much hope that in our interactions with one another, we can hold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal about deadlines. Rather than give you my own "don't panic" advice, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water ... Kinsey & Company Microsoft ...and that's just a sampling. When I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  , so I can start testing my projections, which will be on the walls in ... familiar with the runway route and how to walk in sync at 115 BPM. I ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... Castle in the Air, and the ever-shifting cloud castle.) The one plane I ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream ... . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... , and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012