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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  fun facts for the price of one)!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Emeritus Charles Vest introduces Friedman. A big crowd shows up for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  , maturity, and common sense. For those who don't know what happened, someone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  are unable, to apply for Early Action, please remember that there is no
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my ... 't have much left   I had taken hope for granted which feels so ... . writing letters i don't plan to send. forgiving myself for having days that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... now for spending four years having fun instead of preparing for my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert ... , spending my free time hunched over my desk studying for dreaded midterms

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... for a littl ebit which was pleasant i guess. But you know whatisn ... the Bunker Hill Monument! On a whim, I stood in line for anyone who

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... ”). Push down gently, blow the glass, and then stop and let it hang for about ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] Glass pumpkin instructions, but for real

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  ’s emotional responses, so I only speak for myself here. I don’t quite see my ... because a computer can generate pretty paragraphs. The joy of reaching for ... they exist as separate entities beyond myself, they are for the reader

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... decided to mine my coworkers for Blog Content™️ by asking people for their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for ... ’ll also find outlier products or ideas or art (for me some examples in these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for ... passion for architecture and civil engineering to prevent such tragedies ... -reinforced concrete that is also self-healing and passively absorbs greenhouse gases for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  " by girl in red as the reference for this blog's title) Between the ... jackets.  So the biggest reason why I've become such a sucker for fall? I ... ’m just proud of myself for finding childlike happiness in pretty leaves and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  feet walk for me, as if the schoolgrounds themselves were showing me the ... smells for the first time. Shock paints their face because I know they can ... can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  for an uber ride, or a dinner out? where am i between saving time and ... days or weeks, but months. setting goals for quarters and years, thinking ... brass rats with years starting with 19. teaching for esp, and seeing all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  accepted. With four other girls, I squeezed into a hotel room meant for two ... shift in priorities, but I found myself yearning for the familiar ... hunger that has propelled me for so long, the naive ambition that led me to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... ’s another paper that gives me one (1) rate for APQ1 but it disagrees with the ... ’s bedtime I am going to email my supervisor for a sanity check maybe I am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I ... 've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... options one and two. They accounted for 29.23% of the EA applicants. That

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed ... much existential despair for someone who hasn’t even existed for two

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021