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• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  decisions online, so if you haven't created a MyMIT account, make sure to ... students.) To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit ... currently have a MyMIT account and you wish to receive your decision online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to ... pancakes being delivered to us were 30% batter. As a table of 5 people, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I ... hosted a community picnic to celebrate The Howard Dining Hall, which is on ... . The picnic was outside, with all-you-care-to-eat sandwiches and a whole

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... ’d just use this as an excuse to do a cool thing. Like Saeki said, it would ... and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... . Unbeknownst to me, there was an unopened stick of chap in my coat pocket, a ... peach-flavored instead of hummus-flavored. I later gave it to a British

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico, funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state ... state shark biologists). He was talking about having to rescue a shark

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist, curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for ... a day recording his trip to Russia as American ambassador there. I was ... here . For all you lucky ones looking forward to a snow day tomorrow, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... considers herself really lucky to have had the opportunity to work at such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian ... start to notice. I’ve also included a societal obligation box. These

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... possible, and I really took that to heart. Freshman year is kind of a bonding

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  those we're teaching to a minimum standard." A 2004 report by the ... . A new survey by her association found that among 39 states that ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... likelihood that both levels fall to 2 by May 15th, so we might be able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  that because it'd be funny to write a serious justification for whatever ... 't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel ... middle of a media studies class I was taking. I had to excuse myself to go

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... is so worth it to take a few extra seconds and truly understand what

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to ... to have complete information. I know some feel like it may be a hassle ... : Responding to questions about cultural background by talking exclusively about

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  contact, ignored our suggestions, and refused to participate. A couple ... 15 minutes for some teenagers at Elkins High School to make it :) The ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011