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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use ... out those fields on the application. This is important so that your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... building 56, she to lecture, me to Stata, my home base for the semester. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... ’t wait for the regular action folks, and this year's Pi Day video ... . The stuff I’ve embroidered so far has made for great gifts, and it is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  :30 (the official starting time), just about every seat was full, and people ... . Wow! Thank you all for coming! As you can see, the restaurant was ... all for a great time at ISEF. Tomorrow, MIT Admissions has the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  the last. College can be a blinder. It can screen you from looking too ... pursue any goals we tenaciously set for ourselves. The coming of the new ... mom for some new shirts and ended up purchasing the loudest, brightest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  looking for a cab. I found a guy who was in the same situation as me and ... were there for my dad's work) and chill on the beaches of Chalkidiki. I ... the research group I'm working at for MISTI has a [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the ... entries I planned but never wrote. Looking back in the archives, it seems

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  I need to destroy everything around me to move on in the first place ... the career you could ask for, the greatest dream you're setting yourself ... life that are, for the moment, inconceivable. Of course I wouldn’t write

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  by those who came before us, to define the unknown for ourselves ... a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  email, but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to the Midyear ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  email, but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to the Midyear ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video ... colored pen, looking out the window at a Cambridge street below. Ambulances ... shops, shingle houses and cars that stop for you when you walk into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  ’t have time to draw for fun other than a few sketches during the ... working on my projects for my liking. The closest I’ve gotten to drawing for ... spot in the class. However, I did manage to sign up for some Student Art

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... incredibly long post, and Alan for editing. So your team won the Mystery ... explanation of what a puzzlehunt is, so you can look at that. But the tl;dr is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  that the freedoms and privileges that I enjoy today were fought for and ... news channels for the sake of our mental health, and seek some form of ... 'moving on' for us. I know these wounds never heal, that we never forget the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  look into this class long before I did. However, since the theme of this ... 8-Focus so for the majority of students who are doing 8-Flex ... table I want to look at the actual structure of this class and why exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make the most ... more about them, and he offered to hold an entire extra session for the ... and writing lecture notes for Quantum II. On my way out the door, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... different from the only other math class I have taken here, 18.02. For ... few weeks. On a good note, I almost finished the Pset. My work looks

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  applicants we have admitted in the past. One quality that we look for in all ... new opportunities for themseleves and others, and more. The vast ... I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year ... take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the ... would have made the last few months a lot better for me. More specifically

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020