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• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog post, but unfortunately, the circuits in my brain in charge of ... three weeks, I've been spending most of my free time on medical school

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

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

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... and blacksmiths — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... little bit of high school, I was an avid YouTube and Twitch enthusiast. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA ... Associate Dean and Director of the MIT Office of Minority Education Di

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of the Internet out of an abundance of caution. If you are getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... LGBTQ+ human rights movement, the flux of international refugees. It is ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... Fernandez of Architecture, Professor Martin Hackl of Linguistics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core-forming process for bead-making in ancient Egypt, through the invention of the metal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm ... of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu <

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the ... of everyday things. But I thought these everyday things were beautiful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014