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• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  you with whom I've been corresponding these past couple of months - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the scoop - it's not sent out by admissions, rather, it's handled by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  choosing only 100 students quite difficult. Already we've had to make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  and he could've already gotten in with his 1600 and USAMO qualification

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  you've seen? Do you think it represents MIT well? There are so many

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common information about them. So, even though you've been away from high school for
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  cities, but I think I'm fine either away. I like this tentative thing I've ... through the new one; I've gotten to do some more in-depth readings about the heart for the UROP I've been doing since fall semester, and I am still

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... clean slate, starting again, and having a fresh beginning. Despite this, I've

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  . I've made it." And it was this feeling that suddenly I knew where I ... say I've felt at home at MIT ever since is probably a gross ... story still sticks in my mind. I've told it over, and over, in a way such

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a ... few of my misconceptions (and some truths!) that I’ve learned so far ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  the years, I’ve loosely played with these puzzles off-and-on, meaning I ... tone for the rest of the day. Like, before I’ve even gotten out of bed, I’ve ... things” It seems silly, but I’ve found that the cube gives me something to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... within the same sitting. I’ve never regularly gone clothes shopping or ... the style of several people I’ve met at East Campus (and West campus as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -campus than I otherwise would've liked; I spent a lot more time feeling down and ... confident I will be able to exercise them—after all, I've only dropped two ... rewards of three long years of hard work. In some ways, this has happened—I've

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... first internship." "Your first internship? That must've been years ago ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... painstaking detail of my day, when they are no longer part of my routine that I've

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mismatch from what you remember. Every time I've come back to my hometown I ... for the first time. Please, I've never left MIT, not since I came here ... been a place. If you've been reading the blogs for a while, you've

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  : Over the years, I’ve bought a bunch of sketchbooks but haven’t actually ... much time and that made me even less motivated. I’ve learned now to just ... accomplishing this goal because I’ve wanted to get into photography for a long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... , lazy failure! That might just be me and the people I’ve asked, but I ... amazing people I’ve missed a lot the past few months (Matt, Joe, and Martin

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... this? What if that? I've realized, lately, that I'm afraid of falling. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020