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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to ... doled out to him by both Fudge and Scrimgeour, the Prime Minister cries

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... put off, and anyway, i'd decided separately to[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  important my relationships are to me, and how much I'll miss them. the ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... happened. I've changed so much and learned so much. despite this, I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly ... 't seen much snow until coming to MIT. Nemo is by far the most amount of snow I've ever seen, and I've still been trying to figure out how to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  took nearly 5 hours. And the food was simply amazing. We were invited to ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... so we had to explain it to him), Formula 1, and other life in Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  and embellishing: But what if the artist deliberately intended to create ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... is going to be so fun! And then we had Matlab assignments. *I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... month to sing science fiction and fantasy folk music, called "filk" for ... the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and who show up to conventions

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something ... everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at ... to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we ... in various ways by computer, then projected onto to create, by turns

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... deadline, so we knew we wanted to do it in our senior year IAPs, and we did ... wasn’t able to fully complete it, I learned so, so much during the month

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... about what I wanted to do, and B) I forgot all the math I ever learned ... office or a lab, would help me do my part to help the world, and allow me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic, artistic, or anything else. However, we refer to the money given directly by
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... (MITSO) or Wind Ensemble (MITWE), and I didn’t want to bother

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... ), I'll answer here. Yes, I did apply to the MIT biology PhD program, and ... story here), so I'm excited that I had the opportunity to apply and be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... to write about. It’s okay to completely scrap that idea and go back to ... values, experiences, and what was important to me was listening to other

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... -than-acquaintances-not-quite-friends-yet, and a lot of [annotation note="idk how to characterize levels of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  [/caption] Here's every class I went to: #1: 6.4110, Representation, Inference and ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth ... . Plus, my friends Deniz, An Bo, and Grace are in it, so I don't have to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  always dreamed of traveling to Europe, so I was really excited and couldn ... firsts. First bike, first time camping, first best friend… and my first ... ']yurt[/annotation] Foraged [annotation note='cinnabar chanterelles! (which are safe and edible

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  and Politics the next summer) and really enjoyed it - so much so that I ... , there's CTY at Johns Hopkins University, which Jess went to. Both CTD and ... sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  existence, and seeing as the fanbase subscribes to a TV show that not only ... goodness' sake) but does so in a witty, artful, and interesting way with well ... 's right: meet, from left to right, "Doctor Whooves," and The Dude, Donny

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013