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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  Well, tomorrow is May 1st, the postmark deadline for reply forms. The ... Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... -analysis - what is important to you?: You may have done one before, or avoided it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk ... is normally $25) is absolutely free for MIT students. One of the last ... 'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial ... mileage may vary on MIT's TEAL system, which splits a class of roughly 80 ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The ... authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on-site ... . What a wonderful skill it is to speak like a beautiful novel! After the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  entirely too much credit to coffee shops, though. The MIT network really is a ... last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT ... , "this is not a craigslist proposition," just to be clear. Mitra

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... academically, and earned a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1988. Perlman is ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  halls are available on the Housing site.
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find admissions statistics?

  their site too.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  my opinion being an MIT student is more than just liking math and ... question about athletics at MIT. I know that MIT is Division III, and ... ? How easy is it to meet all the different types of people at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  strictly. My understanding is that MyMIT is counting words like won't and ... . This is true even though MIT doe snot use the Common App; submission of ... MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date, but please recognize that processing can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  from home -- but for now, MIT, it is so nice to meet you. Let's be good ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad ... tent. “I was going to call the ranger. You left it on an empty site.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  closed. No, wait, this is actually a picture of one of our favorite MIT ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... ) 2nd West using an internet ordering site to save precious seconds when

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... is a tad bit lighter: Below is a rundown of my classes this ... reading and writing. 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) is a CI-M, and we

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit ... lot of bustling areas and tourist sites in downtown Quebec, which was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  very own school. As small as people like to say MIT is, there’s a lot of ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  I am aware that it is no longer IAP, but I figure it’s better late ... IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  that a taxi to the airport costs $70. Fortunately the NRAO and MIT are ... the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish ... . Our neighbor here in Row 7 is named Isabel. She lives in Chicago and is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  [annotation note='The MIT Museum is scheduled to open in spring 2022.']new location of the MIT Museum[/annotation] and [annotation note='Which is ... MIT as a living being, where the Great Dome is its heart, and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (not Nate…or his friend…) who was concerned that MIT did not offer any ... -related classes and research experiences. Just to whet your appetite, MIT has some ... -famous biomedical engineer and MIT professor Robert Langer. He’s won almost every

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008