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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  ends the 28th at midnight PST. So if you've been waiting to vote, or you've been waiting to tell your friends, family, or family pets to vote, do it ... much to report (besides my first oral exam in Japanese). There'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  recommendation; should I tell him to postmark it by Nov.1, or can he send it in ... call whether or not to send in the essay. But I can say don't be ... quota for number of students)? Or that any students who want to be in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  draw in my sketchbook for no particular reason, or listen to music and ... button, drink tea, realign your chakra or your qi or whatever you want to ... in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... to rely on them no matter what condition I’m in, sick or stressed or ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  new music tracking software to complement my spotify experience. in the ... year, and i've loved them ever since. in october, they came to boston on ... songs; I just knew that they were significant to my freshman year in some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... in Sideways, we worked hard to find unusual flavors in the chocolate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  that in years past~) Believe it or not, though I have been to Ethiopia ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it ... aunts on my father’s side, Aster, used to live in Italy, and we visited

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  fresh corpse lying in a puddle of caramel gore. (Despite my attempt to ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in ... -Sevana artist by donating $50 in cash or beads per quarter for at least a year. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be ... attendance to professional or academic conferences for undergraduate students ... everyone else. This, in itself, is an odd thing to say given that there is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  applicants who want to put their proverbial best foot forward in our ... on in the world, it is a confusing time, and I want to make sure it is ... situation, just like you are. So hang in there, and we look forward to reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... real. The next day I ventured to Constitution Hill in one of the more ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... ="please be nice to Grant"]Grant[/annotation] or someone from our [annotation ... on Avatar and desserts or listen to the massive blogger playlist from

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... scholarship recipients have to participate in "one of the music department

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter ... 've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT -- after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my ... some grad school in the UK. Or I would've told you about living life as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... 's happened to you in the last five-and-a-half weeks you'll recognise this as ... original, and I’m not sure I can convince you to read Homestuck in two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will accept an unofficial score report faxed or mailed in the meantime. You can

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014