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• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... faces. A gaming UROP hosted by the MIT Game Lab where we're creating a ... , I'm having a blast experiencing NYC. So far I have: gone shopping

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present, were initially deferred; you can read about a few of them here, here

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... carry over were the four books i was using as a laptop stand, so i went ... a proper one, so i just kinda put something together in a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... freshman year by running around barefoot in the pouring rain during a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  somewhere after finishing a difficult assignment, and then suddenly it's 6 am ... uncomfortable as you reevaluate your perspectives on a plethora of social issues ... emotionally taxing it is, because I miss deep talking with my friends a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  become a blogger, of course"]ever again[/annotation]! But, now comes the waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... enroll at MIT. This number is a record-high, and toward the upper bound of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... will conflict. That is a far cry from the "reading period" of one day we ... get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single ... take place, we never make it a priority to sit down and really understand how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... sets a precedent for letting them know that they can visit me. ask my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A ... ;   Yesterday, the Class of 2020 responded with a hacked eye-chart of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... just ask that you try to have a little patience.  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a ... were at ISEF to a little reception. While some people had to stay with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015