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• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  1/14/24 A while back, just over 2 years ago, I wrote a similar blog ... ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless ... horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... mailing list about a really cool IAP internship opportunity offered in ... we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• 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 felt like a balloon with it’s strings cut. Adrift. Empty. Useless ... live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... half of it and put it back. Add one cup of half-and-half or a half-cup of cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy ... my research (2 poster presentations + a lab presentation), writing ... was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... . ----------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:17 -0400 From: Ruth F Miller To: Samuel A ... bike there after 3-6-0? Matt and Jose are going. We can invent a dance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by ... interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  (being a biologist, E. coli make me nervous)... bad news. So after making a few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine, fine, I'll explain. Once a year, And that's where I stopped my draft, mid

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025