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• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... our applicants:  We will not require the SAT or the ACT from first ... fall 2021 or spring 2022 Students who have already taken the SAT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar. The air is heavy with humidity and heads and hearts, this week, are

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the 2016 FIRST Robotics FRC game at the annual kickoff event. I've blogged ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  dropping: 3 All nighters pulled: 2.5 This week has been really bad. The week before it was bad, too, and also the week before that, but it ... above the water. -- Last Friday I finished my work for the week and the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and creative MIT students are, it's no surprise that the effort was a massive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after checking if it’s the right bandsaw for the material you’re cutting, you turn a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT-related musings (as opposed to the completely random posts or deep and sometimes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  , Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word ... , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats on the Charles from the window, And all the people walking, And running

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if you think the entry sucks, keep your mouth shut. =P First let's start with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  MIT senior Lilly Chin just won the College Jeopardy championships! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity early in the term and you'll see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/893853200

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  question, please email us from the email address that you used to register for the MIT application portal.
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  I got an e-mail the other day from a deferred applicant, who said that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with the highest averages got into the A.P classes. On the other hand, I will ... 't have any A.P classes and I'm not in the Intel Science program in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... the very fact that i'm becoming numb. two. i spent my entire weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the ... airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane. the toilet got clogged and the gripping plot is slowly revealed over the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  MIT thus far.   the weight of the world felt so heavy i was ... okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my beloved friends student support services the fli community and more you

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025