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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  thing, you're talking to someone who loves sleep. Sleep and food are two ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I took an informal survey of people sitting around the lounge to see what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... will waive your interview. It is your responsibility to check your My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... simple reason: I didn't feel that I had anything of substance to share. But

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , 12/13/14, at 15:16 (3:16PM) ET. To check your decision on the 13th ... .   In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 13th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th ... are ready!  In order to verify that you will receive a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... . The resort had a circus school, so I learned to go on the flying trapeze

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... Scholar Program, which enables current graduate students to enroll at ... demonstrate their ability to handle MIT’s rigorous academic standards. The
• Blog / Uncategorized

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange ... me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... concert, and four days isn’t enough notice to book another company so we ... groups as possible to borrow equipment from them. ultimately we ended up

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Shire."]my wing's[/annotation]Discord asking if anybody wanted to take ... [annotation note="I've got a final, but I don't need it to graduate, and I'm sure it'll be fine regardless."]to be done[/annotation] and to have made it. I am

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living ... time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023