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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food. Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I ... groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... deal of spinning, flipping, leaping and/or diving This shot is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my ... some of my favorite spots in the area! Kendall Square Area 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised there aren’t more of these kinds of videos floating around online; I thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the

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

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... Professor Winston. There are many geniuses at MIT, but not all of them

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... list some of the fears you may have (which I had) about going to college

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  Family of Bloogyness this year. 60 entered. 7 survived the The Blogger ... , debating the implications of each choice, exploring hypothetical alternatives and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the election has been the educational prospects of undocumented students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016