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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  and the places that made you yourself. MIT wants to create a team (proof ... . Leave them on the SAT. You’re writing a personal statement and, personally ... the intention to burn us to a cinder.” It’s a little too much, right

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted ... [annotation note="I've got a final, but I don't need it to graduate, and I'm sure it ... Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the ... said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  waiting all too well. It's easy to sink into a sea of anxiety and focus on ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th ... information in the near future. Okay! Those are the essentials. Try to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  us deciding to play with Photobooth on a Sunday morning... You said ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... a bed?" And Mike Borohovski answered, "It depends on where/with whom ... a double and as such, my prefrosh will be sleeping on the floor, heh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics ... . Each group has a computer to enable the learning process. Most of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... people reading this can understand this experience to some level: a missed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... . We've set up a recovery fund to ease some of that burden, and much of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  picture with his cell phone last thursday and sent it to me. The text that accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... 's life. It was more of a resume-filler, something that would "look good on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... quite a common problem. We do ask you to write in your standardized test ... )." So it's quite alright to write in a future date without a score, as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my hall dedicated to meat. I also think I have a food addiction; I just want

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  . I would like to think it is a short and shriveling twig casting a ... It’s raining today, so we’re punting Novemburn fireshow to our rain ... during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  lovely spring afternoon, waiting to go on one of our social events: a ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007