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• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  of me that I'd thought I'd outgrown or discarded— I'd close my eyes and ... another addition to our home. And, three months into The Double, I can ... view of the sunrise (in the rare moments where we've been awake for it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... group. I had one of the two speaking roles so I, theoretically, had my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  amount of work you're capable of. “What SAT score do I need to get in ... large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so that we can field all of the questions we get. Every time somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... students in Nepal. I’ve learned a lot in this class and have had a lot of fun ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  world of biology research -- I read quotes by Tyler Jacks (7.013) in major ... .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few ... note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  of classical dance. I love it because you can forget about your life ... individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... spend two weeks in Paris trying out all sorts of restaurants, visiting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No ... over our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... overflows, I sleep through my alarm, I run out of cereal, etc. When all hell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments. ... Over the next week (or so), I'll be publishing newspaper articles I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... picture of that. Instead, we have a quote:  Ben: "Can I hug you?" Me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  you in Southern California, I pose this question to you: Can you ... I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... cheering squad, and MIT is no exception. I had the pleasure of being one of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle ... during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... bunch of us out-of-towners met up with some MITers who are working in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005