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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I ... what the message in the email said. And I wasn’t lying when I thought ... transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  an entire year straight! (I was about to Google "minutes in a year" but ... had them on repeat while i was traveling in china but i love them so it ... ) and check out what made that day so special for us, with a blurb written

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  Action and received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied). What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... locate you in our system and reset your password within a few days. What if

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6,820 students applied for early ... works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... this decision personally: if I have learned anything in this job, it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams ... of myself as a very trusting person. i like to think of myself as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... : "I could've sworn that I've seen a photo entry in your blog, Ben, or ... english every moment'). In other words I ended up with a 600. I did my SAT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  in what appeared to be a maze, I saw the dome, and I had a moment of ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... checked out. In high school, I thought this was just the way things were ... like this; it takes a shape I honestly never imaged in high school. At

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... to anyone around me. I still do my best to check-in with my friends

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn ... Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... start?” I’ve been through it. It doesn’t have to be a hair pulling mess

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a ... reminisce for a quick second, i remember reading the blog for the 1st time in ... featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... ?” “What if I want to integrate a theme with the plot?” “How do you keep ... they have to trust someone to carry out a task.” “Motivation? Bro I wish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  correctly. I never set foot in a research lab in high school, but I gave up ... a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... little, not really in a dangerous way or anything, but just by being

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  that it's a bad habit i picked up from mit, because in college, no one ... meant long before i started working, but i still don't know what nsfw is ... one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... , hypercubes, the Black Death, and more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT ... 're a big fan of Instructables Also Thursday afternoon, check out a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  as both an 85 and a 100 are considered A+), so should i send in my ... considered A+) so should I send in my class 10 marksheet....would it provide ... beneficial to send in a new essay that I feel better explains who I am? Should

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the ... nice speakers in here, but I failed to take a photo of them). Perhaps in ... felt I was limited in what I could do with the chemicals. They

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I ... explain myself: I chose MIT because it was what I needed. It's a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024