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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i ... mailing list, people are discussing whether a new paper claiming to have

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... Vagina Monologues, ran by MIT The F-word. I really wanted to join, but alas ... [/annotation] by misrepresenting myself somehow, but I also didn’t want to diminish

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  by your counselor and sent to Common Application schools. The MIT Midyear Report is to be filled out by you, the applicant, online via your MyMIT Tracking. The MIT Midyear Report serves two purposes: to get your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or ... unable to complete your application by our deadlines. In the interim ... delays caused by major disruptions outside of your control. We try to be
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  Happy Memory, get your good spirit and energy back, take a deep breath ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends ... entry coming soon!) counselor - I've had a chance to spend a little more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... . Everything below the line she wrote, unedited by me.  playlist i. i want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  Bayer in Leverkusen and get back by around 2 AM at the latest. After all, it had only taken us 4 hours for Ling and I to get to Bao's apartment ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... :00-8:00 PM: Build Your Own Loudspeakers- a class offered by the Hobby Shop ... publication! - Writing a module for the soon-to-be-launched OpenLabWare website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm ... finds unfamiliar paths in familiar places to meet new friendly faces. (Hey ... hope that you continue sharing your story to the world, and we are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a

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

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  for me to get. You don’t want your arm bent too much or too little since ... test after white belt, you have to get “checked-off” by people or ... Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  victim). Happy pi day! Brought to you by your social chairs + eva + anna ... . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... break and attempt to recover being blasted away by six midterms and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to ... your knowledge of the school be limited to what admissions wanted to tell

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me. If you're googling my full name, could you please leave a comment ... boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where ... do enter it please be sure to be clear about the bass so as not to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  ASAP, we decided to take the ferry over instead of getting there by foot ... across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking ... .']solo-backpacking Europe,[/annotation]or something akin to that. I knew that by this point

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023