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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure ... decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... that I was making clothing out of duct tape and decided to go all out. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , it's time to say farewell to the class of 2009 and hello to the class ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... the itch to write. And when Celena C '12 said that she was going to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  them even have ovens!! I'm going to ask them to order some more...oh yeah ... 'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation].

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world has some new baby bloggers, all very excited to write for you! After

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. https

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was ... 's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official ... entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... to the kitchen. Ben is cooking breakfast. "Good morning, CJ." "I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... planning for the fall term had been built around the premise that, due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... to this place than just doing classes. Here's the blog post where I ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland ... non-image content to satisfy you people, but really there isn't anything wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  trying to finish up all your applications when you'd rather be hanging out. We understand and want this process to be as painless as possible! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  (Sorry if you were expecting to read more about MIT, but exploring ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015