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• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  on the flashlight by my pillow and watched my breath in the air for a ... 'd dressed in layers. The early morning hours (6am wakeup time) called for ... for telescopes, that I decided I could be an astrophysicist. V. We

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  seen an increase in applications despite the fact that the number of high ... should wait for an official announcement from our office. We have not yet ... . Thank you for your patience. If you had an interview and we haven't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image ... " align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (click for better visibility)[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... to MIT meant making new friends for basically the first time in my ... For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  loner on the bridge looked weird. And for a good reason: dressed in all ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers ... in the days when sleep, food, and rest did not matter, only passion for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  and 5pm in the company's time zone, which is really awkward for people ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  great applicants got turned down, and getting in as an international ... helps in the transfer admissions process. If you are intending to go for ... on it for an engineering applicant. Not everyone can be so lucky as to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  shine through, not just an essay. And are you ready for the best part ... sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... late. And now, to hit the road for Vermont. Hope this helps with those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  Chinese literature class, looking frantically for potential thesis advisors ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class ... modern Chinese. I’m scared for my life (and my grade) but also looking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  technology is all the rage. An idea's no good if it's just stuck in your ... ...it was time for PLAYsentations!  In one of MIT's largest lecture halls (10 ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY AND ALSO EVERY OTHER PROJECT IS ALSO DUE THIS WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

  

  'd be free for an interview for a card in the next few weeks. She said ... card content for the big run of Version 2 at Orientation in the fall. A ... , so I made this basketball comic. Looked better in pencil, I think

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 4, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  about reading The New Yorker so everybody knows I'm an intellectual ... ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... looking at all those squiggly lines together, in their intricate ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  others, but I now know that there is something for me to look forward to in ... in hindsight it was something so insignificant. I still struggled for ... their life. It is extremely common for someone with an eating disorder to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  wardrobes come new and exciting activities for MIT students to take part in ... grabbed a potato, cut in half, for the eyes, a carrot for the nose, a red ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... virtually anything their heart desires. It's amazing. In case you're wondering ... taken some photos for you guys to see these machines :( But this just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018