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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... doors in the middle of trees or something (I don't actually remember, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  groups, I have been in Seattle, at home, while the rest of my family has ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and ... intelligence in such a vast array of ways. I was very attached to The Smart Kid ... group of people most similar to me. If I did, I wouldn't have ended up in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have interviewed for MIT, and I wish them the best of luck and hope that they stay in ... head off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get ... , thank you. In the middle of each meeting, I introduce the local ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a ... have gone smoothly and wonderfully. I got my first taste of working on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of ... to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  name. And I found the fridge: it is in fact disguised as a set of drawers ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005