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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too ... was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  , more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... flashing cameras, to which I contributed: (They're kinda blurry - sorry ... Best Way to Make a Difference," and he focused largely on education

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  of things to make you feel better. cj: snark later! at least introduce ... keeps thinking that i have to tackle all of these head-on, that i have to ... brings me to my next point. alan: which is? cj: that word you used alan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  also my chance to discover and create. On the other end of the spectrum ... fire hose that is MIT has barely been turned on, it tends to freak you ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the ... ) leads to the phenomenon of "genoism," or the discrimination of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... about 1,000 degrees, which I would have to deal with for the next month or

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  times a month and probably will for the rest of my life, for better or for ... , where I proceeded to make all sorts of plans to explore the town, which ... -country takes the better part of a day out of you. News to me, as this was my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  terrified of starting this class. Turns out, this is shaping up to be my ... programming is a lot like cooking, which I am a fan of. Writing good code is ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... classroom. No doubt you've heard about it, as it is getting a lot of press

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  offer that expert food, he or she is probably more than happy to talk to ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... whether or not to weaponize, though a military strike on Iran would almost

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . Here on the blogs we try to give you a sense of what life is like at MIT ... a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of ... world who rely on the Internet as an avenue of activism. According to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  do on here is reminisce, I thought it’d be nice to share snippets from ... reblogging GIF sets on Tumblr, I finally found a place to watch Blue is the ... my parents had gone to bed, watching the three hour beast of a movie on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... quizzes you need to take: on college choices, your type of bae, and ... , another game of endless distraction on the powerhouse of the cell (which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... is a man beyond description. He has been known to compete in dance

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  while writing these blogposts. Which is perhaps, inadvisable. Back to the ... doesn't need to be running on caffeine 24/7 to simply exist. Which, there ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor ... -bound students. "This achievement is a tribute to their pursuit of educational ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  're making your college decision. A bunch of them are mine, which has less to ... should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how you can get to know MIT better are these very blogs. Actually, Blogger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  Cognitive Sciences minor, which is heavy on biology]. I was almost a physics ... year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018