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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his mathematical maturity, he often gives off the dignified vibes of a tweedy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending ... the main office at 617

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the snow had melted. That didn't stop us. Aaron strapped on the skis and made

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... begrudgingly agreed to usher his blog entry into the multicolored web portal of ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• 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 / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this ... ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ="attachment_109829" align="alignnone" width="225"] My hair has been updated in the last ... (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT ... 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... better on a different chew toy, brightly colored perhaps, the kind of treat that has nutrition or enrichment like the toys tigers get at the zoo. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... life, but self-fulfilling prophecies certainly exist. the classical example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore throughout the entire weekend I was there, yet two people pointed it out the ... 's admitted student weekend, and Homestuck Day, 4/13. Check out the new

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that time, it's remained one of the most widely read and shared posts on the ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  four years, when it's Random's birthday, the entire dorm goes on a great excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this ... of the jazzy sound of this absolutely brilliant song she wrote and who

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... don't want to watch the video I do want to write a little bit more about

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016