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  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list ... -called fun-filled holiday was slightly marred by the stress that I knew I ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today's Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non ... meet the same standards and go through the same very difficult admission ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  This post is written by the wonderful Elisa X. '26 / MEng '26 ... I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... of the ideas from this post: what if i don’t want to feel better? what ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  the last month, it simultaneously feels that so much happened, and that nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  With Parent's Weekend coming up, I thought I'd reflect a bit on the world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the other side of the country. I lived in a one story house in the suburbs of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project-based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  those things at the same time which became very muddled and confusing ... , about the joint improv/a cappella event the Asymptones did with Roadkill ... everything in in one go. But! Like the Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information ... doing activities that interest me. I decided to spend the first three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  I was planning on dropping an effortpost "in the next week or so ... I have big psets. For the past two Tuesdays, the 10pm-11pm time slot ... -do list. Life finds a way, I guess. Anyways here's the vlog <3 https

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• 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 ...  Tai Sui, the god who rules over our fortunes. The last time it was the year of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio

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

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  On October 10th, the MIT class of 2023 had Ring Delivery. Ring Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the arrival of your [annotation note="The MIT undergraduate class ring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors, the cabinets, the walls, reinstalling hinges and handles... I watched

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... myself. The class meets three times a week, twice a week for lecture on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020