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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  . ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #1: Meet The Bloggers Want to meet these guys in real life ... - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... action" in response to the fact that certain groups are underrepresented in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... I were lost in Addis Ababa. You’ve probably already guessed that I get ... to ask yourself what your community is, and how you fit in it. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston ... for the equivalent of 6.5 standard classes, in addition to singing in ... from being able to really enjoy the semester in a variety of ways: I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify ... . I ended up getting a PhD in computer science after a few post ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... own room. I also get access to a kitchen, which I share with my suite ... awesome to get to know the MacG upperclassmen – and Boston – a bit better

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been able to visit them in their state. After an excellent walk on trails that ... to me, compared to parks in Boston – and delicious sushi for lunch, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... emerged in my head: I began to realize that an application to graduate ... respective organizations to levels I had only dreamed of while in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra ... 's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T wastes in one day what MIT works an entire year to save." "Somebody derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  ! It's not everday you get to meet a blogger My favorite A Phi lady Leslie '10, and one of the coolest people to ever major in Course 10 ... miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... friend Nish take his scribbled-in prep books and scantrons to the beach

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... to me in particular, since it was also the same class as 21L.014J (the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... 't commit to the story and the characters. They would giggle or laugh or get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... Kerry N. '14 and Kate R. '14 Green Beans in Egg by Diana H. '17

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  who study and work hard to do well in school. It definitely isn’t easy ... a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... wanted to take classes in Course 4, and the two I ended up with are morning

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011