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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ARTalk lets us share these more fun-filled moments with the rest of you ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  some mistake here ... someone pls correct us in the comments ... we aren ... can say for certain is that we started this fall semester again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . It’s days like these that make us remember why we love it here so much ... (the topic of the class today) where our teacher showed us animatics from ... was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  just over 15,700 ft (~4.8 km). Feyi joined us for the cable car ride ... loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast ... to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a

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

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  great environments for US students to look at. Let me tell you more about ... today is that there are many great universities in the US for ... with US/Canada admissions officers who work with international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel ... topics are compared and contrasted with characteristics of a U.S. city ... . While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  day for almost a year now. (Freshman fall was a different, more virtuous time.) Because semesters are very sedentary for us, we have been making ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first ... for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... the US Census' American FactFinder. And what kind of high school do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  medium for pretty much all of us. Most recently, we’ve been considering ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had ... —and showed us, for comparison, her first comics page and one of the pages she

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for tests they wouldn't have to take for us, especially during a public ... for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in ... improve access for students applying to MIT. Below are answers to some

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  information. Why do we do this? Well, it's really just for us to keep track of ... below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... preference towards students...but it sounds like for everyone else, they'll be

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  pretzels!), and a dance floor! But for us, the event mainly involved trying ... ? The initials of the five of us (me, Allan, Nia, Karen, and Katherine ... photo position setup, and 2) NONE of us are looking at the camera (Karen

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... following day, she and I will depart for our first trip together as a married

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  grad school and a full-time job, and gave us suggestions for resources ... important and transforming undergraduate research has been for us. Between ... and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... not be admitted. But remember, any statistic against you (or for you) is ... from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X or major Y

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  one of 3 companies that called us back for onsite interviews.  Around ... out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... , and “Thank you for your interest.” So we’ve tried preparing ourselves

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere ... it too much as Professor Grossman tells us excitedly about amorphous ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  a wise man once said, for us, it's more than a job. It's hard not to ... bordering on apologies (there's nothing to apologize for!) -- letting us know ... haven't yet replied: As soon as you've made up your mind for sure about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008