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• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I’m flattered for something I’ve written to get 211 upvotes, and I’m sad that I can’t…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute. Since the blogs were mostly focused on decisions, I figured I’d follow up a few days later with some of…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 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, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• 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, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been seeing happening on campus as…

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  If you haven’t seen this year’s pi day announcement video yet, please do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many hours working on it…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that’s too early, you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to wake up.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place…

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  I love traveling alone on public transportation. I like staring out the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I’ve always liked just sitting in…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this post, but something about letter formats feel the most honest and the most true to what I…

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this IAP,⁠05 IAP, for y'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte, stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed it, that MIT isn’t that academically intense; that it’s only as hard as you…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I’m doing a lot and it’s taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I’ve finally crashed. So I have COVID,…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went “You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?” The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live on, and we currently have four furry residents.⁠13 and an unspecified number of residents who identify…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022