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I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo. 26 Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when… Read More

I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It’s incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept, money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this is fine, but in the… Read More

  Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to find something she’d recognize.   But the “hola”s from home, the kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and “how… Read More

Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2019. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and… Read More

I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I’m sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had… Read More