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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  will play out. College applications just don’t seem to end, and as you ... your dream schools. You’ve studied hard for the SAT. You’ve done all the ... , happens for the best. That college decisions are about a good match. That

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend ... in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating ... Waking up to a Cinco de Mayo band playing on Memorial Drive after getting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... convenient excuse for not blogging since February - it’s not that I’ve been too ... smartphone magically detecting playing cards. I spent three hours with an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at

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

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , and epic-scale lust for the power caught up in a little golden ring ... to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we ... orchestra we saw had six harps, a band of guys playing anvils, and a number of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  .) On top of that, moving to a big city for college ended up giving me the ... Boston, but I still get to fly to my awesome hometown for breaks ... with the idea of a small, hipster liberal-arts college for most of high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing ... ran for over 30 hours each week, I naively assumed that that was it and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy heart of residential Cambridgeport, my home for the rest of the summer. My ... influences of Mark and/or Shania Twain. (Can you feel my enthusiasm for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play ... recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by ... music major for this to be considered (most people who submit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  attend office hours for classes where the problem sets are notorious for ... participate in sports that may be brand new to you without ever having played ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A ... Seattle for the summer (Boeing, Microsoft, etc.) and had dinner at The Crab

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  exact same classes for those four years. You really got to know some ... 't want that fate. For the rest of high school, I realized it was infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between five and seven people, but that was harder than it seemed. For one, 5-bed ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  would play Wordle and its dozens of variants. After all our lectures for ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... .  Whether that’s true or not, I love performing to songs about female rage for fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  sells 1-way Amtrak tickets between Boston and Providence for less than $10 ... pretty sleep-deprived the next day because I only slept for an hour, but I ... called Massimo for dinner where I ate the best tiramisu of my life

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023