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• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data: over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  Bell "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ... be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a ... lot more exciting than either of them expected. I really liked the music ... about it, but I saw MTG's production of Cabaret early this year which I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  University of Georgia t-shirt. Unfortunately, it only takes a moment to crash ... I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  the hang of it. Since I knew I would be commuting to work every day, I ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... not an expert by any means on any of these things. Whatever I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  , I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there. It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  with people you may normally not get to hang out with cause of your other ... recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  again requested, this time by Rachel W. '16, founding President of MIT ... a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... the Boston Qualiflyer for Red Bull Paper Wings. If you haven't heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! Barrel of Monkeys hanging from the Lobby 7 skylight! Complete with ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  the middle of a meeting. Our group didn’t usually hang out during lunch ... ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... my group, got the coolest gig of walking around in a space suit with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , goggles hanging from the neck, a cup of coffee in either [annotation note ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  oversees seven of MIT's women's+ organizations. I've never gone through ... these organizations are a distinctive part of MIT student life and can ... addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013