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An End
I'm sitting on my bed, back against the windowsill and sneakered feet dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise-empty bookshelf, a shirt and a purse strewn across my...
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Skies over MacGregor
This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which...
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Let There Be Prefrosh!
Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts. I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts...
View ArticleIntroducing… Maker Portfolios!
Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us additional...
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REX at Random Hall
Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had...
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Open Sesame…Ring.
The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us via 3D printers. Even my completely unhealthy obsession with burritos -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I...
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Taking Care of Yourself
I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two years ago. MIT has its times of incredible stress and it's...
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Thanks, man
Santa Fe is elevated 7,260 feet above sea level. It is not overcast. When there are clouds, the sun fills the space around them and splotches the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch...
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DEALicious
First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 dollar investment ever. Coming back to campus last Monday, I...
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Your Questions
I can't believe I've been blogging as an admissions officer at MIT for 9 years. Over that time, I've periodically opened up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now...
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Laser Graffiti
A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we spent about two hours there this evening, then walked home. On the way home, we passed the Green Building. You may know it as the...
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Four Weeks of Freedom
The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've...
View ArticleClass of 2017 By The Numbers
Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our process. This includes publishing admissions statistics beyond those contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data...
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New Year’s Resolution
Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops have been harvested, children are no longer needed as...
View ArticleLive from Reg Day
Ah, Reg Day. The day when *ALL* (except freshmen) MIT students meet with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when...
View ArticleThe Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future
In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my...
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year 2 of the course 2
I know what youre thinking. You're thinking, "hey, you missed an apostrophe!" You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a mechanical engineer anyway?"* *you're probably not...
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Finding Balance
"Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba....
View ArticleThe second-to-last first two days of class
After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days...
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More Milk Please
MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk. The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk-loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk...
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