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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... dances. Recently, I've had dearth of dances: This semester's place permits ... these grand adventures. (and some of us, we take those times and post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2016 are now available at decisions.mit.edu You can log in ... of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place ... -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... debate tournament in North America" -- by defeating McGill University in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  the center of the universe. With that context under our belts, we ... , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  think it’s possible, to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on what ... good crash course into what kinds of topics I usually think about anyway) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  want to study the fabric of the universe! I love Physics. Ahhh ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007