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• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I ... Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and ... intelligence in such a vast array of ways. I was very attached to The Smart Kid ... group of people most similar to me. If I did, I wouldn't have ended up in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... doors in the middle of trees or something (I don't actually remember, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have interviewed for MIT, and I wish them the best of luck and hope that they stay in ... head off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get ... , thank you. In the middle of each meeting, I introduce the local ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a ... have gone smoothly and wonderfully. I got my first taste of working on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of ... to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  name. And I found the fridge: it is in fact disguised as a set of drawers ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... 't make sense to major in, say, Literature, at MIT (which I sort of agree

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014