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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and ... coffee (coffee grown in Yemen or Harrar region of Ethiopia) knows the first ... about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  the cake - assembled all of French House's food coloring and sprinkles ... sprinkles and placing them carefully on the layer of icing, while talking to ... Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways ... I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... of losing weight, the times I was scared to leave my room and walk to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  ? In any case, I was pretty scared. Then the first week of classes came around. Surprisingly, I wasn't struggling. Like, at all. The first of the ... extent, in the first semester. I balked at the idea of having one's grade

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... and mineral deposits from the constant dripping of water ... ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  , though, was art. And I loved it! In the midst of so much leaving my list of ... combination feels right, I make the beading pattern a reality. And the rest of the time? I’m still living with the love of my life, and every day I get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and electrical engineering. Course 6 alums and professors have developed the first ... curriculum for the Class of 2011, and Hanhan explained the current system and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of ... will be richoted again and again within the corridors of gossip in a ... about the issues of marraige and reproduction, especially as they pertain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  existing Quidditch teams and their snitches. Some of the snitches will do ... . This afternoon was the first warm, sunny, beautiful day we've had here for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  application process you may send a copy of your green card via the application ... All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... , and they've sort of just passed into the mist of my memory because of ... , and that's a huge chunk of the four that I was promised coming in. I don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  of Mocha Show the other day and could only marvel at how fulfilling it ... any of the time i dedicated to it and can't wait for our next chance to ... front of me. i miss flopping onto the beanbag in my room and getting ready

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... ’s why I’ve called at least half of my professors by their first names, and ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  produced by students to show off the community, physical spaces, and unique traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... the tracks a couple of days later; sure enough, there was this: And

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  them. Thanks guys, for sharing so much of yourselves over the years and ... and the fallout kept me pretty busy for the following couple of weeks ... facebook and figure it out). That was an absolute blast, and also the first

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  from a test robot that everyone built in the first week of [annotation ... within the limitations of the secondary school’s resources and budget. A ... students could download it themselves. The morning of my first day, I learned

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you ... , 9/12 is september twelfth and not the ninth of december).  Apparently ... 's one of the best things that i ever did and that i will always be a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  the apex of a paragraph or your essay. Use as few syllables and commas ... start of your sentence, paragraph, or essay and to put the more important ... more (and better) advice, check out "The Science of Scientific

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012