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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school ... more time passed, and as I was writing my applications for graduate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... applying for financial aid on the Student Financial Services website.  The deadline for applying for financial aid is also February 15th. Best wishes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of like discord for your dad. Most groups have a general announcements tab

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... our testing requirement, but more than the 20,075 who applied for entry ... suspended our requirement for the first two years of the pandemic. Ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  revealed that he, too, is willing to betray his fiancée for a night ... that analyzed books for having a specific thesis. Back then, I composed ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one ... crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  great place for everyone.” Full disclosure: I heard Jeremy say this once ... source?"]stole it from him.[/annotation] Can you [annotation note="for ... said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in ... improve access for students applying to MIT. Below are answers to some ... my scores for your consideration? No: in fairness to all applicants

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... function of our yield rate, which is admissions industry term for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  . A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills: Unity: ❌ C#: 👍 Developing for VR headsets: ❌ Developing for ... I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  - the late nights, ordering Dominos, using the coupons for 2 Medium Pan Pizzas For 8.99 Each, the occassional late night conversation, sharing the ... 'm reading for my urop - some are for fun, like the first seven volumes of saga

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  the quarter, and i also read three stories for CMS.307 workshop. the ... realized i had a bunch of unfinished work for my UROP. hanging over my head for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... so saw the Class of 2020 arrive on campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential Exploration, or REX for short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning team consisted ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... Mathematical Association of America (MAA)--the organization responsible for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... . We even decorate it nicely for the holidays, see? In any case, the ... 't bother to calculate for the sake of not feeling old. Here he is scolding me

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days - but for good reason. Have you read Lydia's post? Get on it here. I hope

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012