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• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  grad school, so working really hard on it between now and the end of ... MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit ... headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... still kind of is. When I would get off work I would go home, and just ... changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... . Despite multiple months of sitting on this idea, I didn't start creating

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  former residents and friends of the Haus (Paula C. '12, Tara E.'14, Ru M ... , Sabrina, Allan). Residents and alumni were concerned about the future of the hundreds of murals that decorated the walls of the oldest dorm on campus, so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  ostensibly from, was only really home for the people it had. and so many of ... — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but reading everyone's blogs has brought me so much joy, and i'm sitting here on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  the ~18 of us are generally very on top of things and very inquisitive ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... . Transportation planning is a mix of civil engineering and urban planning, much to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  enjoyable. Eventually the quarter ended and I was swept up into the world of midterms and actual classes and pistol fell to the back of my mind. (Other ... subject I did for four years back home, and I put off taking anymore PEs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  a part of your life anymore, sitting on your shoulder and whispering ... surprising? years of psychological abuse, and it left scars on my psyche. alan ... responsibility if any of these clubs fall apart, and it'll be my fault if i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever ... . I've found that even students and families who don't have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... are for longer narrative pieces, with a lot of meaning and effort behind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my ... classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra ... to work on them. And then I was out the whole weekend, from Friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... . We honor Squanches and eat a whole lot of pancakes. Perhaps one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . After orienting ourselves and collecting my luggage, we hopped on a ... had recently acquired and was proudly wearing on its windshield ... Maryland hacking, scraping, and waging war on the ice and snow until the car

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  people and moving around and everything i feel lost on a much deeper ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to ... running out of them m: definitely r: and at some point we gotta

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  't have any impact on your chances of admission. ... Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won’t have any impact on your chances of
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  . Will it be the sense of community and family of living on my floor, or ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art ... , cried dozens of times, and partied like the world was ending—because hey

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  of your freshman year, Cs and above are shown as a Pass on your ... on me and my fellow frosh. In the aftermath of our last [annotation ... on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023