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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list ... -called fun-filled holiday was slightly marred by the stress that I knew I ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today's Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non ... meet the same standards and go through the same very difficult admission ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  This post is written by the wonderful Elisa X. '26 / MEng '26 ... I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  the last month, it simultaneously feels that so much happened, and that nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project-based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information ... doing activities that interest me. I decided to spend the first three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  I was planning on dropping an effortpost "in the next week or so ... I have big psets. For the past two Tuesdays, the 10pm-11pm time slot ... -do list. Life finds a way, I guess. Anyways here's the vlog <3 https

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... still trump change among those who really run. As the years go by, I see ... where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ...  Tai Sui, the god who rules over our fortunes. The last time it was the year of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  On October 10th, the MIT class of 2023 had Ring Delivery. Ring Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the arrival of your [annotation note="The MIT undergraduate class ring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... myself. The class meets three times a week, twice a week for lecture on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the ... hollow blue pipes, pointing at the Charles so that you could see the other bank through them. Nature sounds were played around them, with the idea

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019