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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my cozy 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, measuring my ... , digitized attempts at recreating our chaotic in-person lunchroom banter

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  arrived at MIT, we all gathered in kresge auditorium for one final event ... perspective and from my perspective when i first saw the email notification in my inbox, a moment buried four months in the past: hi, what classes

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to ... . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... hive in an unusual location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9m6MoS43k4

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... spaces that can support such a large audience. Typically, we plan months in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own ... want to make the most informed decision we can in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and spend days in my room, sitting alone in nice weather; don't want to have ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... applicants who want to put their proverbial best foot forward in our ... I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... backend for our app. We ended up crashing in the hackers’ lounge for only a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... various environmental and sustainable development groups in the region. So ... : cooking up a few messy storms in the kitchen, simultaneously organizing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018