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• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  application on your own and write all your own essays without any of these "paid ... during regular action, if you're deferred. Work on your other college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... defiance to a system that is built to oppose you rather than support you. on ... . the work of discovery shall carry on, but i can easily say that i have

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field ... was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a ... making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing ... Game, but it turns out that the Big Game is so layer-on-layer that I ... , by different people on the game-making team who have never before seen

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  math. We talked things through and moved on. This was a relatively mild ... than 20 Twitter followers now. [/caption] I made it on a whim for ... myself relying on it as a protective measure. Not everyone uses that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... ’t make progress on difficult problems so we pick easier career paths and in doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my ... attending a Netflix premiere red carpet in the heart of LA. Or sitting on a ... on the other side. Perhaps my reservations for commitment are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... some of the content before, on day 1, I already feel behind. Even if that ... I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the

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

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  . I didn't really intend on taking this class. It's an interesting topic ... -and-greet before the first day of lecture on Thursday, so I went to the Media Lab to ... left before someone made me optimize some C++ or something. On the way

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  : I've been catching up on all the reading I haven't gotten to do during the ... , so I've moved on to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ... on something with one of my best friends, Steven T. '20. It's been my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  munch on pizza from the place underneath my apartment, as I people watch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the ... redacted] Audrey: oh wait we probably shouldn't put that on the Internet ... sounded like "step on me"? Angela: Is that any better? Audrey: sure. so we

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  'll do so-and-so things. that was the only thing that pushed me on. it was ... after i turned seventeen. it happened on this very night, four years ago ... a part of your life anymore, sitting on your shoulder and whispering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  information section on the self-reported coursework page to provide additional