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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... Congratulations! You have finally been accepted to college! 4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  out of my comfort zone by reaching out to a random person and forming a ... see what people are working on and get to know what’s happening in each ... close to being on campus as I’ll get for a while now, so I’m enjoying the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a ... our tour! We didn't get to see everything, like the sailing pavilion ... hope you all get to explore them the next time there's a sunny day :) As

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel ... I want to submit this by the deadline, and it feels horrible, and I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october" by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  other by their in-game nicknames when referring to the gameplay. “Why is ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done ... same time—but I've been having a good time trying to get it all under ... particularly friendly, or, to be completely honest, even as[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college ... comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  . By the time you get beyond those classes, your lack of background ... house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... Authority which cover the region, helping commuters get to work in Boston and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally ... DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway for the title of Person Most Likely to Try to Entertain You by Talking ... having hair and having too much work to do can be characterized by variants

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  . I never expected to get into MIT, honestly, and I chuckled a bit whenever my Lolo couldn't even fathom me not getting in. My mom had tried to ... and over. I hate how sometimes my Lola gets frustrated when she has to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... meant to get along very well was a very valuable life lesson. When I came ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  Uber across the (very beautiful) bridge to get to the mainland. obviously ... , and we were flying back to Boston to be greeted by 19 degree weather! it ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  stop myself from trembling with the thought that I’ll get by no matter ... ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to ... mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008