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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the ... should not do: Fly to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous ... other. It is in your best interest to complete your financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  class every student has to take"]GIR[/annotation], and it is (from the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The ... (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday ... ) where instead, whenever the reset day is about to come, there suddenly

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  everyone at MIT does (according to the fantastic pressure survey in the Tech ... in December for me to wear shorts three days in a row, and when the ... is rising, the semester's winding up. I'm trying to wind down (not that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Master, the most exciting thing to happen in weeks, but not exciting as a ... drag you out naked). Unlike most other boarding schools in the country ... point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  are no trees and the sky is so big. i've lived in new england for the ... "] among the best in the industry [/annotation] and i'm excited to learn from ... was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT ... opinion it is generally easier to make friends with someone you know in ... for science courses or are they thought to be there to fill seats in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much ... yourself on occasion to contemplate the truly nutso fact that time is passing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  always knew I was going to choose MIT. Bluntly put, it was the most ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work ... is, an engineer without interests in the wider world, working a cushy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  . in days like these the body feels like an inconvenience. i have to tend ... 're asked to pay attention to how our feet are in contact with the ground, to ... in nine separate occasions. by the end of the class, i'm expecting to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  that I could go from here to 3rd overall, but I did much better in the ... to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the ... . Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... ’t allowed inside. The best way to describe it was super detailed stick figure

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  –     that shepherd I want to become that hears in the bleating ... 've been meaning to write about poetry. I'm taking the 21W.771 Advanced ... enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back ... in the front row where we were treated to some of the best live jazz I ... Saturday night the campus radio station brings in two or three bands to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to ... during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you ... for if you fit in well with the culture there. Talk to different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014