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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  city is so congested, living close to a train station will be one of the ... when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... work, or even to identify those who will finish a four-year undergraduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an ... BROUGHT ME ORANGE JUICE because we have a lot of Terrascope work to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... do great things and you are going to have a wonderful college ... else I can really think to say. I am a firm believer that everything

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

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  , Lozada had to work, and later, she started a family. Today, she will see ... MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... year, you'll go to MIT.' '' Neither Wilfredo nor Elizabeth Lozada has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... their own modifications and designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... applying early is a great way to show the admissions office that you ... get a second chance, there isn't an advantage to applying early. If

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  ,” and then proceeded to do so….   When I came to MIT as a super ... . Look as a blogger I feel slightly obligated to tell you guys otherwise ... that fact. MIT was simply just a place I happened to live; it was no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... getaways. I'm also my own best friend; I am a daydreamer. A surefire way to ... -California border. A restless curiosity sheltered by walls of mountains gave birth to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... little more wary and a little less [annotation note="To be fair I don ... tolerate you but I will not code" and switched to a joint humanities and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... had every opportunity to learn, but I was too busy applying to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social ... .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also ... those rare moments for me, I find coding to be really frustrating. After a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  thirty minutes. We all went to that room, only for a department admin to ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start ... professor once a week to discuss the material one-on-one. I'm hoping this will

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... corner of my heart. There’s a sense of wonder to the idea of an airport

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017