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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  The sixth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... majors: Course 2A Biotrack: Biomedical/Biomechanical engineeringCourse 10B

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these ... happy, and keep taking one step at a time. https://youtu.be/-3U3Sby4zko ... to say it, but it clear to meIt lucky that Moon is not a cookie

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also ... write. This is harder than you might think, as was learned by a man who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly ... wanted to join—now conflicts with a class. or, it's saturday (or sunday

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  dropping a single one. 1) and 4) I just really want on my transcript when I apply to graduate school. 2) is a class with my research advisor, and I've never taken one with him before. Plus, he's a great teacher. 3) is a CI

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  cj: does it wayne: nooo you're marching, like, go a little forward and ... riding a bike cj: i hate riding bikes wayne: … cj: no i mean i like ... once, in a past life wayne: oh cj: tries going a little more. why is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  alongside its deputy skyscrapers with a steely temper. Beneath them all, city ... paradise to me, a Palo Altan indoctrinated into the cult of the Silicon ... back side over and over again in a routine that might resemble love. i

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... turned the radio back on. Vienna was coming to a close. There wasn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... read "Tell us about a significant challenge you've faced or something ... "   We've added a question to the activities section where you can indicate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... remember going from trying to knit a simple square to designing intricate ... started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those ... of a thing to happen to someone so large. Another thing that caught me

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  last year's early action period, when we received 9,291. As I wrote a few ... , beekeepers and biologists — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... 's flagship hands-on courses, with a class budget larger than some offices at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on campus, I'm glad I got a chance to enjoy the snow this season.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best" actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... = Production of Educational Videos 21M.601 = Drawing for Designers 21A.502

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the ... those of you who want a peek into how the different MIT residences choose ... tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  and experience the Internet as it was before group chats: a ... a jerk. That is all.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018