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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning ... .60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , and I completely missed the presidential debate. D'oh! Tomorrow night ... should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have ... travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... describe my life through the coordinates of semesters. I don't know if I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world ... with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social ... cardio and love strength training. Experiment with different forms of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology). Apparently he was one of the most brilliant course 7 grad students the ... Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... -pi-day" posts with various thoughts, comments, and advice before the decisions go

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions that ... admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days ... the end of the week. What's being hosed? Well there's this saying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  . Some highlights of the event: - spaghetti wrestling - a human hamster ... attending the LuWOW on the West Side Campus, but the weather was kind of gross ... kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of ... Tuesday is the night I do pub trivia with my friends. One of last night ... With 5 days until the May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... [/annotation] printouts of my 18.200A (Discrete Mathematics) lecture notes The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3 years. I absolutely LOVE this program and the flexible career path it

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you ... Our applicant pool for Early Action was really competitive, and ... anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action.  Also, remember that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions ... Admissions, the interview is an important part of the process. The interviews ... like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... and egg strusel fillings. Come get them fresh out of the oven ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it ... another. Through ALL OF IT. It’s selflessly supporting and shamelessly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017