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• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  face, let my eyes wake up, and still tired, headed off to work for ... , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons, but many more because I was having fun staying up late and just hanging

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for ... swing on Monday, while I helped with recruiting teachers for Spark ... MIT community for a weekend."]which is like Splash but for middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  one activity, however, that we hope you will join us for: MIT Quest ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  up for a while: Course 9 (along with many other science majors) is not ... . Ask for help if you need it. Stand up for yourself as a student. Stand up for MIT culture as a student. Keep MIT special.

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  stupid..."? Do they tell you up front what is the acceptance rate for those ... specific points they are looking for?" I wasn't told up front what the post ... bacon too), then cook it up and serve it to everybody with hot chocolate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  used to do stupid things like stay up all night studying for tests, and I ... and took a 2-hour nap, and when I woke up I realized I had no homework to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  from caffeine, consumed in excess to make up for too little sleep. Then ... Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  really dicked up for all of us. The post-college summer of traveling around ... embroidering, sketching, and painting, but none of those really do it for me. Up ... huge deal for New Englanders growing up, and I'd like to be a part of it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  area, the perfect candidate for the dinner was found: Mu Lan Taiwanese ... end, somebody brings up that we should continue the tradition of ... delight, 12 people showed up.[annotation note="Twice as many as last time

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to be typing at full speed for up to 10 hours a day, the equivalent of ... is not offered solely in English, allowing me to sign up for inglés and ... some context before I begin my inane rambling. For anyone who doesn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  you missed for two weeks. that workload you were keeping up with side by ... terrible name) took me down for a week or two. it's been going around, and ... - hands and feet for a few days felt like someone was jabbing a needle into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  end of the building, then walk up back to the same level. For my FPOP ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... cubes for reasons. Oh man, I got lost so many times. See, Simmons is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a ... EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have ... appreciation for The Marauders. I reread the individual books often, and just

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  weekend for van rentals so sign up early and reserve a space! Sam I ... . Because college. So Rachel and I decided to sign up for the trip together ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  ) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with ... to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... woke up early* this morning and trudged bleary-eyed over to room 26-100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  tomorrow, as I pack my bags for what seems like the hundredth time this ... , Spartans/Aztecs/Greeks/Vikings! These past few days, spent preparing for the arts/crafts portion of camp, have kicked up memories of my February CK

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  and I had just woken up to go for a run, so at the time I pegged it as a ... ran up and saw canines), it was definitely a school bus for dogs. I have ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... days for your MyMIT tracking system to reflect new documents faxed to us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009