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MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

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MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status…

by Chris Peterson SM '13
March 14, 2025

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Admitted

YOU GOT IN!! Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in…

by Decisions
March 14, 2025

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Waitlisted

A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you…

by Decisions
March 14, 2025

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Not Admitted

There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you…

by Decisions
March 14, 2025

Blog / MISTI

Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

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I like standing at the edge, stopping there and looking down at the valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of…

by Uzay G. '26
March 13, 2025

Blog / Advice

Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

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[i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a significant impact…

by Kayode D. '27
March 13, 2025

Blog / Residential Life

meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each…

by Ellie F. '28
March 12, 2025

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by MIT MINCE ⁠07 a cooking club that hosts pop-up…

by Fiona L. '27
March 11, 2025

Blog / Majors & Minors

What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

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1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade,…

by Emiko P. '25
March 10, 2025

Blog / Miscellaneous

moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

I have never read any of Marie Kondo’s books, nor have I claimed to, but I feel like we’re connected on at least some minor spiritual level. Although it’s definitely…

by Aiden H. '28
March 10, 2025

Blog / Uncategorized

Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

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IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it’s the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And…

by Anika H. '26
March 8, 2025

Blog / About Decisions

I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

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Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with the “nerd culture” that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to announce Regular…

by Jebby B. '25
March 7, 2025

Blog / Academics & Research

Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed that quantum phenomena, as absurd as…

by Andi Q. '25
March 6, 2025

Blog / IAP

GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

My GTL⁠21 Global Teaching Labs, a program where students can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first…

by Fiona L. '27
March 6, 2025

Blog / Classes

Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

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My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it’s been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove those feelings to the…

by Jessica Z. '27
March 5, 2025

Blog / About Decisions

[Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

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The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then I remembered that I submitted…

by Jeremy W.
March 4, 2025

Blog / Personal Projects

ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

Hallo! My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT Student Center, and we need to be working. I’m currently working on an assignment for 2.007, which…

by Kayode D. '27
March 4, 2025

Blog / IAP

Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think…

by Ellie F. '28
March 3, 2025

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a CI-H⁠65 Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The…

by Kayode D. '27
March 1, 2025

Blog / Blog Projects

[live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 …is what i told my team at 6:30am in the morning after staying up until 1am (skull emoji – selena) to sort out the final logistics…

by Janet G. '27
March 1, 2025