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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time ... MIT, and we'll check to see if it's been included in your application. ... days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  (which is way harder than you would think it'd be???) I'm coming to the ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  decided to take on. It seems this want to draw is shared amongst many MIT students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... largely because it’s hard to mess up “abstract,” if not impossible. It was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history ... really interested and wanted to keep studying it. It was so fun being ... perfectionist when it comes to language, so when my Chinese friends told me things

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , and it is inspiring us to take the same bravery into our graduate ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... can admit that it can be really intimidating to start. Starting from ... muscles involved, but this is where you REALLY feel it"]force of my thighs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... political news media that clung to its storyline of the race being a "tossup

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, an owl working its ... , we can all be reminded that sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us ... distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was ... I write has to be reviewed by security, and needless to say, it's a ... scavenger hunt! Enjoy the fame and glory that comes with it. P.S. I'm trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  California is superior. :-( Time to break out the window air conditioner unit ... Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I ... stitches out this afternoon -- *VERY GLAD* to be done! I'll be moving into a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We'll see how that turns out. The application part ought to make it easier to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  as he was concerned. I ultimately did trim it down to three, completed ... purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... particular school was probably my parents first choice. It was much closer to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... , so I reached out to its two creators. Rob told me that before Spaceman ... Submarine. It kind of small and a bit before their time, so they decided to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  , less, less.  But here is the thing. It is impossible to extinguish the ... possibilities. I am from radios blaring and pop music, And no, it is not too ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... technical as MIT -- it became evident to us that art was something important ... our classes and activities! And even though it took 5 semesters to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  thing she wanted to do more and then sort of throwing herself at it. She ... to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... intimidating. Putting work online is an easy way to build up a portfolio, have

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible ... . This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Abbey. So, that building and I have history, and it's weird to think that ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024