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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  drove up the East Coast on Saturday morning (well ok, my parents drove) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

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

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of ... Class Profile For the MIT class of 2014 Gender Male 55% Female 45

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... . About 75% of the MIT kids who apply to medical school are accepted each

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  of the time I felt pretty alone. MIT’s been pure sunshine compared to ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a ... Institute of Technology. I liked the way that sounded. It had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end. This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class I was busy composing an email to the head instructor of Junior Lab

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... capricious and an abuse of discretion" on behalf of ICE. The lawyers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for ... Washington, DC). If you went to one of the admitted students parties, send your ... the red CPW box on the left side. Also, tonight MIT students will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  -sur-Mer, a small town on the western coast of France, near Nantes, with my lab ... you up on an offer of a free room in Paris!). [] Me on top of the ... for Paris as soon as finals were over, completely unafraid of the fact

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The ... the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a ... 'easter: So called because of the storm's trajectory and wind patterns, a Nor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Hypotheses and Ig Nobel Prizes MIT is the site of the East Coast BAHFest ... 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 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006