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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  what we call “MEnging” (em-en-jing). The MIT[annotation note ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... . Weird? Normal? Sometimes it feels so normal, walking down the Infinite

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  A few weeks ago I sent out the call for new bloggers. We had quite a ... who to invite into the elite ranks. Unfortunately that would be a lie, and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10 ... something about mechanical engineering. Apart from physics, it has the most ... where nothing is being learned We have an Asian (15% of the total asian

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ."]useless statistics,[/annotation] I am naturally the friend that will always send you my top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... primarily high schoolers read the blogs, many freshmen do as well. I won

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... /folders now!  We have been deliberating our decisions regarding the wait list for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  Back in the fall, I wasn't really sure if I made the right choice regarding my dorm. Now, I'm very sure I made the right choice. I like all the people and all the things here so much. Plus, [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  is 6'014 km away from the 'Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and I'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the ... !!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with CPW reminders and ... everyone thinks they will have the best guest. The magic algorithm that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... post update on the upcoming HackMIT!   --   Hey there~! We’re Shannon P. ‘20 and Jierui F. ‘20, and we’re on the HackMIT organizing team

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them--not because the work is finally over (ok, partially) but because you realize you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014