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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may ... step to "solving the puzzle" is connecting the corners and the outside

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... Building, because it is full of grad students and grad students do not sleep ... MIT without someone throwing something off a high building. The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines ... purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our ... could help let prefrosh know about their efforts. Their guest post is what ... discover who you are and who you want to be. As it turns out, MIT and Boston

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things that I did not know about MIT before I began working here is that the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  that every interview will be unique, and that is what MIT wants, but ... . This is a time for you to help learn whether MIT might be a good fit for ... interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... you'll find your path through MIT is much smoother!

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  transcript and no further action is needed on your part. If you did not submit ... (located in the MIT application portal) after you submit your MIT Quest
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a ... for the MIT application portal.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  , our room is actually where Sal Khan lived during his time at MIT! Can ... , making this blog post about how, indeed, our double is one of two on the ... room that housed such a success? us in a big mess t b h this is nothing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  digital equipment you can borrow at MIT is Nikon.) The Tech has weekly ... . Technique is MIT’s yearbook, or rather, as they call themselves, the MIT ... ;s also a host for many talks related to photography. Since MIT is an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along with it, the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt! This years hunt will begin on Friday

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cross-Cultural Conference

  

  I'm going on a cross-cultural conference/retreat tomorrow. 2006 is the first year they're holding this event, so I really have no idea what ... covering: History of Diversity@MIT 1861 to present Cross

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look ... obsession with stickers. Sorry the pictures are so blurry! Lighting is ... stickers is also difficult. Oops

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips ... Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT ... This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Science (even though EECS is by far the largest major at MIT, attracting ... , “This is MIT. We’re engineers. Engineers solve problems.” ... research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew ... mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  a prefrosh, come by! The schedule can be found here. This is all about pika. This is all about food at pika. This is a picture of pika:         *what is forkapple? the best game ever

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015