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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... scarier is how badly you want to get in but knowing everybody else wants it ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  try and get things done to graduate in June (eeep! real world! yikes ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... !), and gotten to coexist in the same room as the legendary Chris Peterson

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in ... was a ridiculous amount to see and take in. I could sample any color or ... want to travel to small villages in third-world countries to engineer

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the ... . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  questions in the comments and I'll get around to answering them (probably ... taken multiple times in order to get the best possible scores (Reading ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  'm slowly getting used to the fact that, when I speak in Celsius, people ... MOLECULES IN SPACE (presumably because he realized that adding "in space" to ... last year, but didn't get in - which makes being here now even more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... have checked in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can ... information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... 't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019