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• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I’ve ever had in my life. Saturday. I’m helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We’re watching the Logarhythms sing.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase “the wrong side of the tracks.” In fact, I’m from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... you. In the meantime… well, that’s up to you! You could watch all the ... could also check out some of the highlights from Isabella ‘24’s You

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  and what you’re good at. It’s been almost two decades so ... Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... people your age are probably experts. By age eighteen, it’s probably

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  . I like their songs because they’re lyrically strong. Here’s the second ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood ... evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I've begun cold-brewing my own iced tea as per Kenji's instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body’s ... and the Arts, passing through a 3-midterm, 1-pset, 1-mini-paper week. It’s ... with infinite wisdom, I realize that it’s nearly five p.m. I mumble an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... promise): It’s a lake, it’s frozen. I am standing on it while taking this ... than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) was created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT’s efforts are aimed at a future in which the world’s water and food needs are
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to improving cancer therapies, MIT’s research efforts are enhanced through
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  Decisions will be released mid-December for Early Action and mid-March for Regular Action. We'll email instructions for accessing the decision letters as soon as the official release date(s) and time(s) have been
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  green cards are considered to have non-U.S. citizen/non-U.S. permanent
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS-S  | G. Jones 21A.500J/STS.075J Technology and Culture; HASS-S  | S. Helmreich 21A.520 Magic, Science, and Religion; HASS-S  | G. Jones Comparative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... before the departure time, 6pm. I make it on. It’s a smooth and ... contest on TV while I eat. Now it’s time to pset. It’s 10pm, and I have

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my ... conference championship Men’s cross country has won every single NEWMAC ... Women’s track and field has won 15  Women’s and men’s swim and dive have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025