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• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  perform music and would like to submit a portfolio for each. Since the Slide ... guidelines are there for a several reasons. First, they provide structure and ... their interests and aptitudes with us on the standard MIT application

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  . I thought I'd look like a super-tourist and pet the cow for the camera ... gorgeous today -- 82F with a light sea breeze and very little humidity -- so ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up ... to keep my relationships with my family and underclassmen asking me for ... out of my depth with the content and I fell asleep in the front row of a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  I was in looked like that, all wood paneling and a bit of dark gothic ... quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  your skull like a paper bag now!!" And he looked up at me, grinned, and ... . She always had a pair of pink superballs with her and would throw and ... a pair of talking velociraptors, complete with dialogue. For my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  more need for a filter.   It's been a great experience so far, and ... I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just ... working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  . '11 Chris S. '11 Snively '11 Look for a future entry with a rundown of ... Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who ... of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  the courtyard and crowded on balconies for the pit lighting: A ... favorite two. Roast is also a time for halls and suites to do something art ... -packed with events like Senior Ball and Burton-Conner's dinner cruise, then this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  the weather outside is a chilling 2021.   For your safety and comfort ... adventure with me. Y’all are a part of my forever family.  To my blog family ... will make for a sufficient goodbye. Be well, be happy, dream big, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... to do a lot with it. As I have been reminded again and again, our time ... reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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

  

  just that: making MIT a place welcoming to both students and parents. The Cena a Las Seis is just another example of an event for both parents and ... ; 2014 Cena a Las Seis   My mom with other Latina parents and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  yeeted that bag into the freezer for like a week, and by the time I ... kind of expensive and time consuming which is why we only did it for a ... A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for ... incredible. this year, there were a few locations in consideration for my ... /Portugal, and San Diego. my passport had expired, so Europe was off the table for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  treatment plans for patients with ovarian cancer. And then there's the ... disease, and guiding her to a death with dignity, on her terms. Revisiting ... Harvard. Hell, they probably have an easier time of it with a higher GPA and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... East Campus, a few other things stood out -- have a look. "Furniture

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  ." "H- how?" This is a critical time for both Sara and Yuki. This is when ... As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live ... "pretends" to cook. Sara's menu consists of two items, soup and cereal, both

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  , but nobody has shown me a sentence that looks like a translation ... look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... other schools she's had experience with (she was at Yale for 20ish years before she came here). I think it's a very positive thing for our community

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014