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• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  submitting in early January (around the deadline lol). I [annotation note ... "]found out about MIT[/annotation] during quarantine in sophomore year of high ... in the country offers a degree that combines computer science and urban

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advising, a non-credit option in which advisees simply meet with their ... in personal projects. We (Ellie, Teresa, and Gloria) are or were all ... far, in different ways! ellie: Making things, feeling objects assemble

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 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 ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  recently or in the most advanced coursework. While we strongly prefer letters ... curriculum. You should do your best and use your judgment in asking for letters of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbenheimer craze. That same night, we hunkered down in the Maseeh basement ... having revisited the movie in my first month at MIT, the themes were stark ... . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted ... in with yourself and surround yourself with good people. Anyway, enough ... senior majoring in courses 10 and 18. If you aren’t familiar with your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  paintings Edward Hopper made in his lifetime. So, when I learned that the ... Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was in 1973. The

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... about what is computable in general. What types of problems have solutions ... edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published an article about her research findings in Technology Review. It ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and ... , breathing kitty cat in front of me? IN SIMMONS HALL? [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  transformed into an impromptu dance floor. That Friday, we performed in the famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id="attachment_88380" align="aligncenter" width="768"] How it went down in my head

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26 ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where ... areas of study in math, in particular single-variable and multivariable

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  product manager position. At one point in the interview, they asked me ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... have goals in life. I never really got around to making any before I came

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... content learned in lectures and provide recitation sheets where you apply ... stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note ... applicants -- in fact, we think it took us longer than it ever has before to ... . '24 of Arizona, who was named after the stop codon in DNA (!!!!), writes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020