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• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had ... made this process during the whirlwind of CPW seem particularly daunting ... 're gonna fit in here just fine." I wore my beanie through the entirety of CPW

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of ... through?” For some of us, the issues got too big to handle. One particularly

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would ... <3' was one of the first things I came up with. Afterwards, whenever

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  manning the booths and answering questions that prefrosh have. Think of it as a live version of the MIT blogs. I'm working the MIT booth tonight ... Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here one of last year's most clever puzzles (this was just one of 114

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and ... Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of ... Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... . About a quarter of the floor has gotten really into figure skating as of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  ). But since the beginning of this semester, MIT Affirm has gone dark ... ="121245" image6="121246" image7="121259" /] The end of a semester and the start of ... This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that time, it's remained one of the most widely read and shared posts on the ... , had thought enough of the post that she had translated it into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I ... the dorm! This year, since Random turned 13, Ilani, a resident of the ... As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both of the projects I'm involved with. :) ... 's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing materials, and Matt already did a great job of addressing that topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making ... teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an hour. Though they were given the option to build anything they wanted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admit Letters... Actually, this photo only shows about half of the admit letters, as overall there were 4 buckets of The Big Envelope. Speaking of ... last two classes, because of an increased yield (the percentage of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT