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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to

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

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  myself. Take More Pictures MIT is beautiful (15% of the time), Boston ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... Regular Action — 28,232 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2028. As ... ,275 students who will have the chance to collectively climb the mountain that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  unavailability of testing due to the pandemic, we think it is important to maintain ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... ) undocumented side-effect, which is that combining also imports the footer notice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted ... time than everything else I'm doing this semester, but it is absolutely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of ... a neon Guernica. The cornucopia of artistic overflow splatters onto

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  the Midyear Report box is sitting there, unchecked. Don't worry ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  . Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that ... athlete knows, Day 3 of getting back into shape is by far the most painful ... YouTube video question the sharpest double-edged sword of all time). I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... writing to comedy and, uh, culinary, which is a testament to the interesting ... people when your interaction is consigned to a closed Zoom room. Over the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... be. One of the other interesting Half-Blood Prince events is being put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... year. By that point I had filled out the core part of my Common App and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively. In the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  the class of 2019. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... taste of a few of the events this coming week. Check out your MyMIT portal ... the locations and times of the events listed below. Saturday &bull

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  listening activity tab is the greatest invention of all time, in my opinion ... Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... because everything is pink and heart-shaped. There are two categories of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course,is ... . Taking junk off of my bed at night and throwing it on the floor is nothing ... losing the use of normal household items like your bed, table, television

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... further. That attitude is part of what makes MIT the place that it is ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant for this entry. More relevant, is the new "StreetPass" feature ... new goodies. The first, and most notable, is the glasses-free 3D top

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011