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• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the ... layer of the cardboard at all - I ended up with just enough pieces without

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  are not offering admission, then all I can remind you is that success is ... students can be found here, with more information about next steps to come in ... a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about ... It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of ... a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  , but in a few minutes I will watch the Germany vs. Italy semifinal match ... Dortmund. And, speaking of pasta, I was memorizing information about bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  immersed in arts courses or the creative community. Students of any major can ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... shape the perception of fantasy and science fiction in popular culture ... one of us was still sitting in his hotel room at 4:45, still scribbling

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  was on a huge social high. I was let loose in a candy shop of ... again. Over winter break I lost two of my good friendships in pretty quick ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of 2006 Brass Rat: Another view of the Brass Rat: I heard someone ask ... Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Qualified (I can jump from perfectly good aircraft while in flight), in high school I participated in a program called Youth in Government and (to my ... college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick Patterson (the first author) was published in this week's issue of the journal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been ... . When most people think of Shakespeare they imagine old English men in ... —written about a fifteenth-century civil war—in an alternate version of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  can't help but wonder if I've been taking advantage of this opportunity ... the paper in front of me. So now, I'm thinking of combining these ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German ... everyone about the history and culture of bento in Japan before leading us in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  code of ethics in financial institutions. After that, I would eat dinner ... work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community ... of a ton of athletes.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... frame. But for now I hope I can share with you the joy of melty metal ... 're proud of. I hope I can block more time during IAP/next spring to take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice-covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009