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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  students from Iran, 1 from Iraq, 5 from Syria, 2 from Sudan, and 1 from ... past few days deeply disturbing. The difficulty we have encountered in ... engaged every day in keeping America safe. We embody the American passion

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  do things other than science, technology, or engineering. I personally ... or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... Icarus Girl, and What is Not Yours is Not Yours in the last 10 days since I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  're interested in Course 5 or Course 7. I did peruse the 3.091 course content, and ... with 7.01x or 8.02 - taking it in their senior year). The main reason for ... .012 (the "advanced version")...NOT 7.01x or 5.111, for example) The short

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  " event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it ... . The French never ends. (Well, the class is over on the 1st, but then I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  this place feels fraught, all of us one or two days from a deadline ... what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work ... read seven abstracts, and three or maybe four full articles. On busier

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  day on campus, when I[annotation note="listen, it's my floor, I know how ... friend or an acquaintance from Toronto. I still do this sometimes, but I've noticed these past few days I've been home that now the reverse happens, too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  wondering if there was going to be a chorus line of dancing sea otters or ... stuff that works its way into your envelope or folder is exponentially ... can swim, jump, shoot, or do whatever sport it is you do. Other than

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of ... personally think that a 1430 SAT I (which I guess would be, say, a 2150 or so ... Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I did other stuff too: counseled 5th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  . It's open 24 hours a day, which is awfully convenient for students who are craving something sweet at 1 AM. It's a ~45 minute walk from MIT ... quick bite and are bored of getting Chipotle literally every single day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  Weak, 100 Bad Days, and I'm Ready"]AJR[/annotation] my first concert ... 1Q84 by [annotation note= "author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and ... MIT after spending three days at home —the suburbs are too quiet and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair ... books for a signature. Then, cue the best moment of the day: the author ... the church into a bright autumn day. The Boston Book Festival was kind

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

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  present a rough guide to study breaking at MIT: 1.Come up with a theme ... two days earlier. Clearly, the natural theme was Canada. 2.Buy food for ... machines at Random get fixed. Stay tuned for the story of my four-day

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... , but the two-hybrid is all me. Other Questions: 1. Shannon asked if Eric

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about ... said that. Friday was, of course, shopping day, and we got to introduce ... movies. Yay for holidays! A question, not really answered: 1. Dalia asked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... announcing Marilee's talk, and Marilee addressing the crowd. On the final day ... ? -- these very blogs. Our mission was to tell other admissions offices 1) what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AllTrails said that it was sometimes filled up by 7. And even on three ... elevation gain over 7 miles. However, there's an offshoot of the trail - the ... 7 AM. Hiking the first part of the Highline Trail in the morning was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... . All day. Every day. Part of the problem was that I was taking this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  't spread them out, realizing they forgot about the swim requirement a day before graduation, or belatedly discovering that one humanities class didn ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  looking either surprised or confused). I just got back from the dentist ... me in the dentist's chair. Inevitably after they've numbed one or both ... days, however, is just one of many things I have done in during my summer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

    December 16, 10pm MIT Intramural C League Ice Hockey   Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal ... community out on the ice of Johnson Rink, or Jack Barry Turf, or Briggs Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004