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• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... Frantz. (Luckily, there are more nights of this performance, so I may still get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over IAP was about designing with constraints. It was about making your own

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... school sends as many students to MIT as yours does. Therefore, when you use ... suggest being brave enough to tell the students that you're too busy when

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to ... want to remind the November 2013 past: Remember your social studies ... . It meant nothing on the larger grading scheme, but to you and your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving ... secretly wanted to do this. ...get special seats at fractal Planetarium

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new information into your brain using these mediums that are not conducive to your ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

   hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you're ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... scaffold whatever major(s) and minor(s) your little dork heart desires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers ... I ever invite you to a potluck.” Shortly after- K: Your salad right ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  pleasure, and a privilege, working with you. Stay cool. You're going to make ... As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an email to admissions [at] mit [dot] edu with your name and Application ID and we'll get back to you.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  open if you'd like to rant or vent or get out your frustrations. Scream ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into ... across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... at MIT is how to carve your own MIT experience without thinking about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID ... project, and get your name on a paper, then it will almost certainly have to ... else) You're free to eat at any dining hall: the meal plans are not dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 's INCREDIBLE have all your support! Voting's open until the 28th, so be sure to ... have worked equally hard to get this far, and I'd love it if you could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007