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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  "wearing blazers," but now that I've dabbled in those a little as a result of ... things you have done and are in the process of doing. I made mine and then ... even still I was not sure it would be high enough in light of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... whole month of January. So for me, I spent this month learning some new ... Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being ... have in common? They are the only two people in the world who can put a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate ... in the office, I've done two information sessions in two days as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  except in case of emerency, I'm not too discriminating. Since I was, you ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being ... Levitt and a small group of undergrads. AHHHH as I am writing this I just

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... new fire that would once again light the city. Anyway, I digress. Here ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  lacked the common sense to know bottles go in the trash can. i take back my ... another 19 hours on top of the 9 i already suffered. i'm waiting in line for ... I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... , but I know that there will be many more times when I can see awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I ... ’t.  This summer I lived in a house with seven other MIT sophomores, all of us ... on campus. In March of 2020 I was impatient for REX.  I’m sitting in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in ... of the problem was that it put the files in a place I didn't expect ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter ... brother is way taller than I am. I spent the first few days of Spring Break

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  while I’ve been in school because all three of these parts can continue to ... lead to one of two cases as far as I can tell: 1) I become just ~eh~ in ... syndrome. I’ve just sort of, grown around this pest I can’t get rid of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of ... hybrid worksession, which was in fact mostly virtual except i was one of ... forgot about it so i waited in porter for like twenty minutes. then one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J ... , and lonely winters; of haunting beauty found in unexpected places; and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014