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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  get work done if I need to, without being too distracted or bothered by ... 's got to be one that floats your boat. Us bloggers represent a nice ... as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to see your decision by clicking View Update. There are no interim screens

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how ... MIT as a school to receive your scores directly or we will not receive ... note that you do not need to express mail or overnight any part of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways ... *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure together, happy to have tried something new and knowing 7/11 would always be

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  information out there. Narrow your field of major choices down to only subjects ... hardest major, you HAVE to have a sense of what you're capable of and what you're getting yourself into. I know quite a few people who have either

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  mashed together by some very human developers. I’d prefer to keep thinking ... min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting ... dish. I read an article where Martha Stewart said to gently push your

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  't too many people passing by, our mom suggested to just play her music ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... urops, and often, it feels like the only way to keep up with it all is by

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  'd you get your band name?" "Is that your real first name?" "Can you text ... still get death threats often So their meaning starts to soften and on the ... getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... services for your glasses by placing cleaning machines (for those that haven

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  ! The first time is absolutely terrifying...but you get used to it. I ... my tan is fading I guess it's time to get back to work. One month until ... me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  form and we will be sure to get the interview report. If your EC has ... /Docufide to submit letters of evaluation and transcripts, your school can send ... materials works in the same way. We encourage you to have your school use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  smiled up at her as I struggled to get back on my feet and cheekily replied ... initial plan was to dance to Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae. It had just come ... we finally stumbled on Magnets by Lorde/Disclosure, it felt too good to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  things that cover your shoes to stop soft ice from getting into them, so my ... starting to feel warm. When you get too warm, water leaves your body and ... words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... At CES, my friends and I went to some free concerts by Lil Jon

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake ... , edited by nicole starosielski and lisa parks (who is one of the new ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... own room. I also get access to a kitchen, which I share with my suite ... awesome to get to know the MacG upperclassmen – and Boston – a bit better

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  Airbender, write poetry, and spend more time getting to know the area better. Slowly, bit by bit, life will mold me into someone new, and I can look ... playlist of all of them is here, for you to shuffle at your own risk: https

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021