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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  answer for you. If you're honest about who you are and what interests and ... Michigan Wolverines (Go Blue!), and the Boston Red Sox (but I always root for the White Sox when they're playing the Red Sox).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... musical sequence. When my younger brother hit the play button, I was already ... hiccup in English), however, has had me scrambled in thoughts for days now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  four I attended last year. I’ll keep you updated for more Boston ... Eagle, Banana Republic, and Uniqlo—a gradient for different budgets. You ... England, behind Faneuil) for local seafood and international cuisine, of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away ... between steps. i still have a lot to do. i have papers for a discussion-based class tomorrow that i haven't read yet, and i have a quiz for my other

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  , ready for action![/caption] This is when everything comes into play. Make ... ="alignnone" width="343"] She did it! So proud! ^-^[/caption] Step 6: Prepare for ... apart and prepare for the worst case scenario by constantly thinking about

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... find out more about frats, girls go for fun. Oh, and the food. Steak and ... time for... - being a social member of French House, a cultural hall in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... friend Alex (trumpet), who plays in the Bluecoats drum and bugle corps, was going to stay with them at their hotel that night and, for some reason

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  almost required reading for MIT students. (By the way, I lost the game ... finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic ... -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  night, a few friends convened in my room for a harmless game of Taboo. A ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... would be away from home for at least 3 months until Thanksgiving. The

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  anybody for creating your own location-based games. I think the project is ... for. Most MIT students take an average of 1 or 2 finals a semester (and ... predictably excruciating to prepare for. Never again. I also regret not taking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... ’t at all sure how to write it. I wasn’t there for the whole time, to ... American Solar Challenge for the admissions site. Which made me think, wouldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  up with them my entire life. They're playful and cuddly and they make ... 't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class ... the rise, said Tony Pals, spokesman for the National Association of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of ... thing a little too far when we started playing bridge, and Gloria '11 came ... harvesting my friends' brains for testing failed, I settled instead on working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and ... wearing a “pi,” a “square root,” and a chemical structure for the scent of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Minutes  -Number Systems of the World -Morphology: All About Affixes -Game ... disease'...the preventative measure for this is actually feeding cows ... Davie '12's alarm (he's crashing with me for a few nights before moving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  games like Metroid and Pokemon; and even twists on some old classics, like ... —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm ... semester for me). Anyways, that's why I'm back. Also, I really like poems ... loneliness that really speaks to me, or the refuge of an old friend, even for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008