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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative ... Campus (GXC) that will be launched on March 3rd, 2008. GXC is a team ... wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering that happens

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  once in a while and catch my breath, and re-immerse myself in the awe of ... post. I went out in my Red Sox jacket, which turned out to be a ... with people decked out in Red Sox gear. There happened to be a game

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege and an honor. We are ... , then I want to remind you success is not always a straight line. Your ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story. Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  with. A less-trafficked study cartel in a lesser-known library is ... Monday, so time is money, which leads to... create a study plan I start off ... friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate ... application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  basic idea is, go see 21 this weekend! But wait, there's more... Please take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know ... lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to ... generally alarming everyone within a half-mile radius, I promptly posted a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing ... we all woke up, we grabbed brunch at a place called the Donut Diner in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  [annotation note = "joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus"][/annotation][annotation note = "in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well"][/annotation]

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a ... find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope ... outreach." I thought that was really nice of him. Anyway, this is a short

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... Potato Cannons, who is also an Athlete of the Year A high school inventor ... as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting ... little else, and perhaps this is why I jogged about a mile before realizing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... admissions bloggers, Dave wrote: "MIT is a singularly wonderful place. As Stu

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010