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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a chemical reaction, or how to succinctly prove that If an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... 't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  order to complete a lab where we build a steel jig and make 20 clothing ... journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  year I also had to make a decision: theatre or ultimate? It had become ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... did fine more or less…We even flew to Texas for a spring break

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  take place, we never make it a priority to sit down and really understand ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the ... to hear about the cool thing you did this week. Physics doesn’t make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  't. So now I feel this weird pressure to...make sure I don't end up in a ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr ... to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... fraternity or sorority, but without a national organization. pika used to be a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , you pedal to make a hot air balloon float over mountains while you ... innovative educational technology tools that can make a significant ... achieve iCampus's goals, and if all goes well, they get funding to make

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet ... . Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the key to ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he ... room was electric. (MIT confession: I was going to make a comparison to ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed ... location for trying to shoot a better photo, so I took the elevator to the 18

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  : I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though ... near future - it'll take me a few days to remember what it is that I ... , but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say ... appears to be broken, which makes me sad, especially since I had cute ... quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005