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  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... good fit for a portfolio.[/annotation] If you’re still not sure, just ask ... (for this cycle: November 1, 2021). If you’re applying through Regular

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... found paradise” or “I hate this fucking place,” and, honestly, for most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... for and everything else. And yet...or maybe because of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... figured I'd blog because I've been quiet for awhile and there are some ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... Twitter for a few minutes. It is senior year, and I have gotten the art of ... it is one of three classes I am signed up for which can satisfy my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat ... little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or ... intrinsic talent for gambling…) i am currently planning on being a [annotation

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... requesting an extension for May 1? I have not received my financial aid ... the May 1 deadline for financial aid-related reasons. If you would like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  comments below), I'd like to ask you to really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example ... the time, so please be patient (for example, I'll be at w00tstock

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... . Sewing? Not consistent enough. Running? Not something I did for fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse. I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... for months and not reach the end of it, and new content is still being ... for days upon end with little intervention. Large community as well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022