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• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational opportunities. It is always interesting to read your stories, to learn more about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... downstairs to the Records Office, sure enough, there they were working to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

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

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there's not opportunities to ... simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  ]\LaTeX[/latex]. And they’re all Paolo’s! That changes today. MIT exposes us to so many ... bloggers to write posts about these concepts this month. To kick off this ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i have lived longer, so i know more about the best way to walk, and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using ... with this picture that he made to teach about  goer five using only these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... listening to: two people, one white, one Black, discussing race relations ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

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

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end ... week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i wake up and i'm already tired. i no longer know if i want to go to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020