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• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories ... empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of ... , i would simply move onto my friends of friends, and so on. there is no

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long ... afraid of MIT? Those nerds? There’s no way they can play sports!” And I bet ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  always give the student the benefit of the doubt, so we usually err on the ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  As a brand new bright-eyed freshman here, you’ll quickly discover that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th ... ="last time I checked"]a human being,[/annotation] so I know the discomfort of waiting all too well. It's easy to sink into a sea of anxiety and focus on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  . One of my friends has been on the waitlist since 2020. As a writer, I ... interesting lines of code, I get to put Microsoft on my resume, I have more ... This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... -12, which i honestly believe should be illegal"]lots of class [/annotation] on ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... the waitlist. Thanks to some good yield prediction this year, using the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  you. The interview is one of the ways that we can personalize the ... beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle of the process instead. Most of the comments/questions I received last

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more ... , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... forward on their seats because of the hard chair back. Wooden Holy Chair

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  time, was running on a diet of 99 cent chili cheese french fry burritos ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... other bits and pieces of buildings strewn throughout Boston and Cambridge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  and it was kind of shocking. "You've come back with that New England ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and ... before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  way to get started, although I imagine that you'll be needing some of ... posting part of my first entry on his/her own blog...of course I don't mind ... Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... . Unfortunately I don't know the sections of the dorm for the New House and Next ... Campus) Andrew S. '07 (Random Hall) (Chair of UA Committee on Orientation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application ... ’ll verify these scores upon enrollment. If you receive new exam results after
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  enjoy it. It's an easy and fun way to make some money on the side of my ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... look for apartments. MIT recently announced that only seniors will be on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020