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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... in going on and to avoid being homesick. I think I will cook my own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... decisions will be made available online for RA '06, but we are working on it ... friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... at a gym with a shower, as various vanlifers on YouTube recommended. I ate a civilized meal of canned beans on a plate, which was the last time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... stretch of blank tunnel wall on the east side of campus. Then they added ... super cool ways. Most people on campus have seen some of Borderline’s work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01 ... on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but ... ? When I took the AP Calc exam last year, the directions the graders get on

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . Knowing I had friends I could lean on helped make this place feel more like ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio ... on steroids), tennis tournaments, and math competitions. I'm back in my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... ’t end here. As snow began to actually build up on the sidewalk, I went to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your ... on your phone like ripping off a bandaid, maybe you want to be on a ... on these blogs with some open threads for you to chat with people who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... Boston. Soon enough, of course, we found ourselves actually back on campus ... ,105890" caption="missing the normal version of WNRS which is currently on loan

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if ... friends who do know how to drive. Impress them on aux with your highly curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it could fit the space that I was given. I stood on a ladder which was both ... follow the Dodgers because Freddie Freeman is on the team, and I only know

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• 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, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  pictures. On the day where we think about the Doctor, me and some friends ... very fun. We saw lots of building and paint on walls that was very "wow ... there and we ran down it with wood on our feet. One friend's biggest worry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  ’t quite believe I was on the trip!']Europe (specifically, Greece ... needed someone’s hair so she could demonstrate hairstyles on someone for ... on a solo quest to visit an [annotation note='Tomás Saraceno

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  [caption id="attachment_92711" align="aligncenter" width="550"] [click on any of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why ... break and become friends with the next best pair of limbs on your body

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