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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not completely bore you with the details of my trip I will compose them in haiku ... Sunday I held the Philly central meeting in Fort Washington On Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... after the book was published. In it he talks about how the cost of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... in and be in there for like fifteen minutes when all of a sudden I see ... ’s because I believe in the general goodness of other people if you give them

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  of the streetlights that dances across the road in front me, I love ... It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... circadian rhythm into obedience. 9:15 AM I feel up all the avocados in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  enough that I can start thinking about the rest of the moving process. I ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to ... in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... about something relatively trivial in the scope of things. I was really ... summer is stupid. Although I genuinely wanted to spend a summer in a city

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send ... i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... schools, I could apply to a range of places (in terms of selectivity). By ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked ... my shell. I started talking more, creeping in and out of the lounges in ... caught up in the world of academics that you can forget that your body

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  . I was acutely aware of every abdonimal muscle in my body. While lying ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you ... . Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever, nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I ... this in a later blogpost, but I've been having a lot of thoughts about my ... strange place to be in, and I can't help but feel greedy and selfish for it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ’ve changed in these few months at MIT into these last eight minutes? can i consolidate the fragments of ideas i’ve considered in this past hour? can i exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream-of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Recruitment. I work in the MIT Office of Admissions and I am a graduate of the ... admissions in a full time capacity. Over the course of my career, I have ... I spent most of my days Chillin’ out maxin’ taking life real slow Just

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery ... story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  sucked. After each round of decisions came out, I hated hearing my name in ... where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  . Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can't really see, but I can see it, and it makes me happy. You'll just have to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  laptop stand and a usb hub so i can actually fit all of this stuff We ... that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020