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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... it will reduce my sons chances at attending a school like MIT (if that ... MIT? Jones: MIT has always been more popular with public school than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  ."]urgent[/annotation] to think about as I end my time at MIT and “move on” to the next phase ... Deresiewicz is probably relevant to you if you’re thinking about applying to MIT ... applying to mit and to other selective colleges, this would be it. don’t take

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I’ll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and I’m so excited that I’m just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport floor, maybe…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  single moment when I regretted coming to MIT or wished I’d chosen a different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected lots of short…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... through MIT [annotation note="Open Course Ware"]OCW![/annotation] Because

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons. Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then ... at mit. in that same vein, there is this sense of awe at "wow, i cannot

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the FIRST(ish)⁠03 i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  Meet my roommate and me: layla: the awesomest roommate ever, nyc native, collector of hobbies and lover of clothes veronica: now known by many as ronnie after she told layla…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  this, and then: MIT. The month I've spent here thus far reminds me of ... some force on this planet. It was – and MIT is – a rapid expansion of ... . The essay collection I started this summer and brought to MIT with me is

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. I can’t believe it.⁠06 like, of course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by The past few days have been the shortest…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list. #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of people have felt this way, because of the way that many people got very sick…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  favorite libraries at MIT are closed on the weekends anyway. I'll tell you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... bloggers to share anything and everything about their MIT experience: what it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the ... Boston. I'd estimate there being at least 200 MIT people there, and last ... tormented me. an MIT student not working for over a week? unthinkable. after

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... [annotation note="Pass/No Record, an MIT policy where, for your first semester ... round trip that didn’t fit into the 20 minutes I was allotted via MIT time

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  events clubs in mind: Divest, SHPE, Arcturus, MIT Monologues I also ... the MIT bubble and spend time around artists. However these are quite ... engage with the energy and sustainability communities at MIT → attend club

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022