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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  found a great community of folks who always manage to make me smile ... -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  '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 ... themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  to buy one-of-a-kind pieces of art that will really make a difference ... individually. Sinchi Warmi can choose to ask its members to contribute a portion ... . "Similar to a pencil in size and ease of use, the device enables Braille

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... make from this post to relief in Ukraine. If you'd like to join me, the ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal ... ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... trying to make the world a better place. I mean, it's a good promise. I ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover ... -house groceries to make themselves breakfast and lunch. So we get a lot of groceries ... I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂 ... photojournalist who has always wanted to live in a city and finally treated himself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... 'm plunging into the unknown and seeing what it's like to no longer have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... , listening to killer vaporwave beats from a murder mystery, and completing a ... work. It’s just a sign of neglect. I’ve learned to value maintaining my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... the dance floor, being stared at. At this point I decide to make peace

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  nearly a hundred dollars (oof) later, we make our way back to campus ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... story Take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube Take part in ... Take a day trip to New York Attend ring premiere and ring delivery

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  results make you feel sad or a bit hollow, but I choose to believe that this ... . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was ... I really wanted it to pay off. I put a piece of myself into that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any ... beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008