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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... requesting an extension for May 1? I have not received my financial aid ... the May 1 deadline for financial aid-related reasons. If you would like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  making it through that. I knew I was gonna be down on myself on Friday for ... things I could do that Friday. Maybe I could get a little treat for myself ... home fries.  My goal for Kindness Friday was to get 8 hours of sleep

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  classes only meet twice a week for 1.5 hours, which is new for me since my previous classes met three times a week for 1 hour. This is a double ... Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... . Sewing? Not consistent enough. Running? Not something I did for fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse. I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... for months and not reach the end of it, and new content is still being ... for days upon end with little intervention. Large community as well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could've prepared for, so I read extensive festival survival guides and bought a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... 't even sure what field of internship I was looking for, seeing as I was ... "Sorry, we're not looking for freshmen" or "We prefer people with prior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for ... swing on Monday, while I helped with recruiting teachers for Spark ... MIT community for a weekend."]which is like Splash but for middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Sciences"]HASS[/annotation] reading. It's good for you. Take a class that ... [/annotation] for at least one semester. Find something fun to do with your extra time. Take a class without having the prereqs for it. Drop a class 11 weeks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  for three hours. Aimlessly skateboarding down my hall. Rolling ... the end of it. I’d spent the last two weeks either rehearsing for six ... love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... hugs.) and talk about why you're withdrawing, what your plan is for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... for bed.   Thursday 9:45am. My alarm wakes me up, and I snooze ... agency for an ad campaign I might take part in. I take a nap, and wake up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015