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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of college applications has arrived. Congratulations! You made it. You worked ... school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Man, it's been a while since I last blogged. I've been a bit hosed ... aero/astro majors, it's "Unified Engineering," which they simply call Unified. For computer scientists, it's "Laboratory in Software Engineering

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... resonant, omnipresent, pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  does—it's great to have a teacher with such a huge range of experiences ... I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  seeing how its structured. We've only had one lecture so far, so I don ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into

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

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  ’t matter how you do it- as long as all the pages have your identifying ... ’m honestly not sure how much it matters. I guess your teachers might be more ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  dubious legality of the inflated mattress (Does it count as a raft? If so ... My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long ... ] said, 'No it's not, it's the best idea ever!' So the name stuck.” The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  that's no longer true. It does provide some nice advantages to ... Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap ... handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... over it. After a long morning that melted into three hours of soft ... can assure you that it's much, much tastier than Paul Revere's house

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  primed me to expect hair to act like it does in Pixar movies). Car tires ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab ... oscilloscopes"]retro CRT-looking[/annotation] display. It was so cute, and I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my ... 'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  of airline training'' "]how long he had to train to be a pilot ... classes, but it doesn't become real until after the first midterms. I have ... Did It! a delightful new album by a band called Bugs Frogs & Snakes

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  experience it yourself to hear just how good it is, but to give you an idea ... did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking ... tablet.  I also find that I retain information more easily when I write it down, as opposed to just typing it out. Using pencil & paper doesn

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  First, I will note with some sadness that it is currently raining outside. I hate winter rain -- it could be snowing so much more productively. It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  students after the [annotation note="this was a scam, it was 10 days long"]week-long ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... . It wasn't too tricky, and a lot of it was based on common sense, like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  has responsibility for cleaning up after herself and learns how it ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  words long, we don't really care exactly how you fill out the self ... ! Favorite movies: Rear Window, It's a Wonderful Life, Dancer in the Dark ... everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005