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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  happens for a reason, and while you can debate the validity of that ... about you guys a lot" is a gross understatement. I'm sure in the coming ... from Stu Schmill. And here I am. The point is, we've been there - we all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  a lottery (which will be phased out); all other majors you can declare ... significant weight in the process. If you have something that is a significant ... earliest day i can fax a copy is the day they are released. Will they still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  understood. with a rigorous proof  While there is more than a grain of truth in ... intense in that they expect a lot of you or they can be really into the ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of competition between ... fun? Is there a diverse set of student activities, or does everybody ... situation? Is there guaranteed housing, or are students booted out after a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  can swim. There’s really only one rule, which is that bad things happen ... , and disconnecting the air flow so that you can’t breathe for a few ... underwater Scrabble.  Afterwards, there’s classroom sessions where you

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  everything and everyone is self-made. That you can make a window out of ... at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way ... everything that matters is in a blind spot and you compare just the shallow

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... money is just game mechanics–[annotation note="there’s definitely a ... suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can ... free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people ... . "There's a really cute skirt over there!" "The fuzzy socks are over there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  country is most famous for – and so registering for 4S.10 was a no-brainer. Now, let me warn you that, although this post is a summary, it is far ... I reminisced about my prior year there (where I did the Cambridge

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored ... bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  friend and I share them and can pset together. 21M.600 is also quite a ... in an actual YouTube educational video, as a host. Here a preview of ... Activities’ Midway. I have started feeding myself, which is a daunting task

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  that which is unquantifiable. I can pay a nanny to take care of my ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... can't pinpoint a single instance that propelled me to do this. But I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  in the world of the play. For example, there is a palpable mood ... as their titles would suggest. As you can imagine, stagecraft entails a ... available as well, including specialized ones where you can learn how to make

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  airport, but any other trips you take will not be free. There is a Charlie ... left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... you don’t have to go there. A charitable and durable bus took you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  group, there’s nowhere you can reliably find everyone. That is, except ... is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful ... might have more conversation than a single thread can handle. Say you

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  this new system.    March 11th, 2020 Current students We know there is a ... answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , has a separate policy requiring you to take the exams, we would ask you

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

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in ... extent, but it is possible that you (like many others) worry that you can ... puts their faith in you, they do so believing that there is potential in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... ? Senior spring is supposed to be the best semester of college, where we get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020