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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... apply to MIT if…?” I’m not an expert in this matter, nor can I pretend to ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  the personal pronoun “I” in proofs. After hours of absorbing the style ... influenced the class topics in profound ways. I enjoy my assignments, though ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... function can be in the frequency or time domains depending on what you need to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, I wrote problems for our National Olympiad in ... (which was great), and I watched the entire second season of Kakegurui in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... - Adventure Outfitters. “Can you start tomorrow?” “Yes! Yes, I can!” I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT ... Weekend: do Latino parents feel welcome at MIT? I won't keep you in ... Family Weekend was a lot of fun. I can't wait for the next one. Left side

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully ... Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I ... magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  dysfunctional I really shouldn't miss you But I can't let you go Oh yeah ... finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I ... can do! For anyone curious about the hike Rachel R. '16 and I went on, we went on the Green Line (I know I said Orange in the video... it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... : Savion Glover: Solo in Time (live at the Boston Opera House) I also got a ... remake) Father of Lies (the loooowest budget film I think I have ever seen

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative, but also exhausting - I actually fell asleep while writing this last ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  can be paired with computer science in a coherent undergraduate degree ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world, we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  updates from us! April 3rd, 2020 Prospective students In our last update, I ... accommodating as we can under these conditions. In recent days, we have received ... As I wrote above in the section for admitted students, based on these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  accept the offer, and thus how many beds you have available in residence ... put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone who was wait ... in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le Divorce on Thursday, so I'm feeling a little, how do you say, francophone at ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says ... 't made the decision yet, well, i was once in your shoes. i didn't commit ... things that matter to me i never would've expected. in particular, what

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

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you ... [annotation note="The floor I live in on East Campus."]Floor Pi meeting[/annotation] in the spring, where we elected committees. I was again serving on Tea

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020