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• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... 　（電車、でんしゃ）) accidents that happen when the train collides with a person and causes death ... cause big traffic delays to the train line in question. When a major

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... each application, and that people know that we did our best to select a ... watched last night, a cheerleading coach told her cheerleaders at a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... design, watercolor, sculpture, etc.) until over a year after we first met

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a ... , and want to blog a bunch! Maybe I have a seasonal writer's block ... League of First Robotics, then you’ve taken part in a piece of MIT history

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... ” – a $500k quantum optics toolkit from Germany with nanometer ... .nano, and they let me (a clueless undergrad) use it![/caption] It might sound

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of ... crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  a story that let them know they were not alone. So that’s the story we ... to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  you have a question though that doesn't seem to already have been answered, though, I am more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... a recommendation or secondary school report. ------------------------------------- Swetko wrote, "I have a question regarding Re-application. Ben already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... for the T in Technology, it also has a super vibrant and scholarly ... United States?? There’s also a graduate program in science writing, a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three different MIT fraternities! Fraternities existing at MIT may seem like a crazy ... total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  Sometimes I feel like an alien because [annotation note="a fact that ... hyperlocal radio personality Kayode D. '27 to curate [annotation note="leave a comment if you have any songs you want us to add to it!"]a playlist with

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

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used ... appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that exceeds, say, a month at a time. All this to say- when my friends invited me to go

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... Memorial building (duh) and it's a full radio station! I love music so so so ... MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... -student. No school – just a soccer practice at 8 am and another at 2 pm, mid ... ="aligncenter" width="442"] We had a team meeting to kickoff the start of preseason. Here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024