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• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... that was stopping me was a 750 word essay on my greatest challenges that ... Mr. Hometown, and my coworkers. I miss taking home a large pizza

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how finals period is the time of semester when all the a capella groups give

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  today was sunnier. And a tree's now gone, apparently. Look! Look at ... would lead down a slippery slope. Now look at all these people sitting ... about these two people eating lunch on Hockfield Court? Are they having a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for ... ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ... and a bunch of youtubers made up these storylines that they act out

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time ... problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... something along the lines of "I think you're asking this to get a gauge of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  most applicants probably won't notice a difference (since they never used ... . However, we have also added a set of optional questions across [annotation ... announced by Stu: a reminder that we have suspended our SAT/ACT requirement

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are ... decision would "encourage schools to reopen" this fall, a statement that ... MIT has participated in a legal challenge to immigration policies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed ... taking a gap year; so i would be around the area, you know, i’d be seeing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... the one you want the most![/annotation] Cursed Images Part II A

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study ... Institute of Tarantella: A lively course of study in performance. Vivace

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic ... beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... 's questions: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also ... Biomedical Research, with shots from my lab and our greenhouse. It's a pretty ... sequence. This is a data sample of a portion of the Arabidopsis metabolome

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  Ah, readers, we meet again. I'm sorry it's been a while. Much as ... Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not ... never seen a movie involving time travel that I did not like. I can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... . It's a day long ordeal, with the actual career fair running from 10am ... Bot, "a drink mixing machine that can build a custom mixed drink with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... 't become different colors. For example, what looked pinkish face-on became a ... - that somehow it's a victory for every human being. So, I managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  : We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last ... system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait just a little while ... applications have been read. So don't worry. At this time, do not send a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011