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• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT ... transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... . The great thing is, these tips can be applied to IAP adventures as well as

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." [caption id="attachment_49906" align ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... to peer into). But! I still have so many specific MIT memories I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting ... Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines ... how to draw dotted lines in about 20 seconds, and you'd succeed 99

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... screens, so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022