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  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a ... email to check in on your documents - we won't be able to verify until we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... , DON'T TELL ME TO GO READ A BOOK! TEACH ME PHYSICS! YOU'RE A FREAKING ... through seemingly impossible obstacles. I ended up getting a B in 8.01L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... in your shoes. I would love to vicariously wear them again.   ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves ... to watch. Like I've said before, I am not a great photographer, but ... page, they hopefully won't mind if I use a couple. I never wrote

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... (Taylor’s Version) announcement on a livestream in my bed // made Spotify ... over you // completely // talk to me now // make me believe in beauty now

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  resident interlocutors; too many to list and thank even in a very long ... , [annotation note='There might be a few banana plants hidden in there...s/o to ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate ... ' stuff I want to tell you guys about (including a video of the Simmons project in case you couldn't come to CPW and see it for yourself), but I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  /or something else. I’m considering a minor in German, but we'll have to see if I ... science, to be specific. I’ve done a lot of research in atmospheric science ... I took in high school,’ I was really moved by a short story creative

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  space in the department's lab to teach everyone. MIT has a limited campus ... this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  someone who can't talk to people and who only sticks her nose in a book... nobody's holding a gun to your head. If anything, MIT students are ... (about MIT or in general!), you have a choice whether or not to believe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it ... that emigrate to South Africa, a Chinese restaurant owner in Addis Ababa ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... Preview Weekend, but to start your academic and life voyage as a freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  , there is a goal, the destination to your journey. There is no winning path ... me to interrupt the biggest mistake of your life. Take a deep breath ... a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... /effort that could make sense of anything in my brain Getting killed by your ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... ; Though we didn't get the real thing, we got as close as you can get, short of going with a wax model. Steve Asles, his stand-in, attended and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your ... record, we were indeed in a viewbook planning session - Saad you were right

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  while I'm traveling!) If you ever get a chance to go, I'd highly recommend ... 10, 2008 The next morning, I head in to the office to run a couple of ... through a hurricane before. I arrive in Houston around 10pm, get my rental

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  , the amazing MIT Asian Dance Team. In which this guy uses a yo-yo to ... 3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... up to Susan Hockfield and said "May I give you a hug while not ... . Were security guards going to run in from all around me? Were agents

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008