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• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... schools for me, rather than pushing me to apply to the schools they thought ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  computer in addition to their Air. Wait for SSD prices to drop, then look at ... , there are a few that I'd like to suggest you focus on for certain ... . When exploring for a computer there are some numbers you want to consider

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... and put my 22 question pset off to the last minute) and "studied" for 8 ... night I walked into my empty hotel room and allowed myself to breathe for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  snow from Monday 06z to Tuesday 06z... — pset submission for my class (12 ... inches. — “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new england”, the tech from Sunday 06z to Monday 06z, the QPF is forecasted to

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  to do is find the money to pay for one: Sigh...it's so worth it ... filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many of you may know this already, but for those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ... tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for ... Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8:30 as usual for my 9:30 Tuesday/Thursday class, 9.15 (biochemistry and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  platitudes. you can feel that you want to avoid everything mit-related for the ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting ... weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  super excited to have her photo on the (in)famous MIT blogs. I smile for ... helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  . And finally we come to Sheila '13 of Connecticut, who opts for separate ... surprise this time next year. Surprise! Boston is cold. Sorry to spoil it for ... contest to be last. That should be a new one for you guys.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  , is that at MIT I've been able to feel seen. Most times for the better ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT ... wanted for this blog at least. I've included annotations to provide some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  pieces can sell for more on the market) and creating a heat sealer to help ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... anyone runs bandit--you have to qualify for it. You have to run really fast ... marathon for you to run, and then your parents won't have to make the trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004