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• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to continue with your professional studies elsewhere. Sincerely, Stuart ... bigger picture. What is your plan?

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  evaluated as a person and your personality, not your record alone, but it just ... peripheral activities, though, if you genuinely diversify your interests in ... through in your essays and your interview. A really important thing to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  has affected our view on leadership. For your reference, Joe starts

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  completed over 120 FAFSAs over 2 years - I feel your pain), I became ... to deny. My goal is to hear your stories, learn about your dreams and aspirations, and read the amazing things your teachers and counselors have to

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... hitting your eyeballs right now. With the 2023 Nobel Prizes still fresh on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking “What in God’s name am I doing? Does this research even matter?” Have no fear! Check out this list of the 20 Craziest…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  his suite: Ruth says update your blog!" And when Ruth tells you to do ... Flowers' office! If you're thinking, "Duh, he's a professor, of course he

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  subjecting the entire admissions committee to your well-intended, albeit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  before, your chances of making the team may be slim. But others are very

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  layering and fast drying time. During the beginning of the pandemic in my ... recommend having [annotation note="Honestly, even your basic watercolor kit

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  sunrise in only a handful of hours, like the world outside was on fast ... . "I was getting one of your keys copied, and it was taking longer than I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  dont know :sob: ; whichever one you’re the most interested in; I really ... fast paced, but I was thoroughly grateful for the opportunity to learn

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  you set your expectations wayyyy too high because I feel like there is ... to feel very fast. 2025 doesn't even sound like a year, so I have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  waveforms[/caption] Oscilloscopes are also insanely fast, so you can even ... microcontroller is about 250× slower than the computer you’re reading this blog post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  . Spooky how fast time is flying by. I'm at this point where I don't want it ... works. Once I start to relax a little bit, it's short-lived, like you're

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  about what MIT peeps do during the summer since the holiday is fast ... for your 2012 summer. Next post: my summer fun! Love Linh

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  't like some of your introductory classes for your major, you can still love ... the course of a semester, you build your very own robot and then compete against your classmates. The two weeks before the competition, I probably

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  . Midnight if I was lucky and the pset went by fast. I couldn’t have made it ... wasn’t about taking classes, she said. You just have to show that you’re ... you’re doing, because it’s okay not to know and to ask for help.” “No

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute see alan's post :)

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-cant-hear-you-youre-on-mute/

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  this big jump.” So I kind of did this baby step, dip-your ... a real fast turnaround but I got to paint, I got to do a little bit of ... studios are in LA, so just come out, I don’t know what you’re doing here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017