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• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  graduate) because I didn't want to be in an environment of exclusively ... Southern California up to that point, in the same suburban city of around 70 ... biking would be part of my routine. Since I was fortunate to have visited

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out-of ... ’s harder to create a set of terrible questions and failing student ... Competency-Based Learning (CBL). I have a growing list of questions to answer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston ... to "where do you live?" for many of us during those four years would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... par during that time. Thus, they took me to America in the summer of

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

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  receiving end of the various negative affirmative action comments that seem to ... are differences to celebrate. (It's the fundamental pulse of the process ... size of the booklet to 8.5 x 11 Thoughts? The resulting email thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... , when I move out of Boston? I'm scared that I'm going to leave this place and I won't have things to do and then I'll spend most of my time being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a ... wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a ... dealing with problems, and more of having to worry about these kinds of ... about it I kind of don’t want to be a grown up. Let me be a child and let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they ... ,000, thanks to everyone who came! This Friday night: MIT gives a lot of money

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... period of 7 days to complete and submit it. We will begin reviewing ... state of the pandemic. If this sounds like something you might like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... only managed to attempt about 60 of the 100 points by tuesday midnight ... need something to snap me out of this stupor. --- working in boston

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of sounding ... further ado, here is the Simmons 3AB musical interpretation of pi to 15

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... advantage of all the opportunities available to you. If you were deferred

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be ... . He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly ... exchange of the evening comes right before they try to break the record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... sheets of paper and turn it over to the judgment of complete strangers. And ... 's questions, or being painfully honest about the terror of flying to college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered ... conditions which the States cannot assent to without a total abandonment of ... claims national protection to slavery far beyond the extent of the present

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  resolved to just tag along in the back while the others grabbed handfuls of ... one of numerous youtube videos on how to be a ninja. (Thanks Rena. Wow ... Lobby 7 to commemorate the moment, making sure to take a few in front of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of ... front desk of dorm. People hardly come by during this time, so get to get

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to ... 'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... let the heaviness of my fears of having to do complicated calculations

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012