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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  18 yet” as an excuse for not doing laundry (which brings me to point a ... Sleep Looking back, I definitely did not get enough sleep in high school ... -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix ... hear about life in Boston from an MIT Alum and MIT ’15 Parent. Mingle

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  , Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... probably an understatement. We've been positively explosive for the past two ... Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so ... this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  have no energy anymore. i haven't touched my guitar in ages or made an ... outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In ... started. There's also a good recipe in there for brownies you can sneak into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... Barlas Radia Perlman had a solution for an information routing problem ... , now a distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems specializing in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... I made a commitment with one of my friends--each week, we meet for an ... than an hour. In a similar way, I committed to working out: gym, twice a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  just an advertisement for some event going on today or something. It ... see in an MIT hack. Weird, whatever, not worth my time." Somebody ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... . The one thing I always had going for me was that I was very involved in ... shows for the show choir, I never got around to scheduling an interview

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and ... grounded in reality, not an abstract word. While hiding my face behind my

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks ... being embraced by Claymates as well. Chocolates in custom-made Clay wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  make or break an experience for me. This isn't anyone's fault per se, but ... 7-10 years behind in terms of music, and it did not bode well for ... holds. I wouldn't do an experience like this for a second time, but

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some ... pictures, hands me an extra battery pack just in case, and then tells me to ... location notorious for challenging marathon runners as the last in a series

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle ... during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  idea of what dorm I was looking for/preferred, Simmons became my instant ... the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time ... name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... me for the abstract thinking I learned in courses like these. Bonus

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  ). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the ... (when you come to campus and check out the dorms for yourself), the highly controversial Residential-Based Advising, and more graphic advertisement for each

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008