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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I ... ’t tell. Sometimes I return to that vision. It’s enticing. Not abysmal, as ... ? It felt silly and enlightening then to recognize that twelve years of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I ... Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit, and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  you can get to know MIT better are these very blogs. Actually, Blogger ... board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I ... written by an MIT blogger, by all means link to it below. Academics Mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  unconditional love.  It was enough to slightly thaw my frozen MIT heart. (just ... fairly accurate graph, if it referred to dogs) just look at how adorable ... Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  ’t light up but they’re still pretty cool. I'm planning on using it to ... could have actually pulled it off, but we had more important things to do ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... -a-mile bridge all the way to MIT — that it was basically walking to hell.  One

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  ):   we are expanding the number of tests that can be used to [annotation ... second, so we certainly can't in good conscience ask our applicants to ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last ... . At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• 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…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days ... ®). Here's the scoop - it's not sent out by admissions, rather, it's handled

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT have a Financial Aid Calculator?

  We have two calculators. The MyinTuition Quick College Cost Estimator provides a quick estimate based on six questions. For a more in-depth review, the Net Price Calculator will help you learn your eligibility for
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... .Collecting junk @ MIT (it's classier than it sounds, I swear) 7.Intro to Solid ... doors to use and how to open them. Go forth! Suggest my suggestions! Or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . What a wonderful skill it is to speak like a beautiful novel! After the ... . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... hardbacks with pleasantly smooth covers, free tickets to the fancy Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  , and talks above serve as a useful map to the wonderful world of SHASS at ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... that it’s difficult for public officials to know how to act toward a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition ... it out. The requisite embarassing picture of yours truly. Marisa

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... can call him "Maestro." If you REALLY want to freak him out, you can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to ... mine. I wasn’t impenetrable. Life was just as unexpected to me as it was ... well. Now, it’s really easy to misconstrue this whole thing as me just

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself ... about it before- some of you have even lived it yourselves. In addition to ... , an imposter syndrome so strong and unavoidable that it’s impossible to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020