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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week ... comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  a fifteen minute walk from East Campus.) The food was pretty good! I ... times per year, a swap meet-style event takes place where you can get all ... observes from a distance, atop a statue. I look ridiculous! But that's the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

    As I began to better understand what it means for a place to be ... to be a senior. Before I close my eyes and finally go to sleep, I can ... every night with a mid-afternoon nap to boot, but sometimes, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for ... wanted to see V for Vendetta because I'd heard it was a gripping dystopic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  email or text message from a coach [annotation note="I will admit that I ... The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  for where I lived. They'd assume that I'd be a little quirky or off or awkward, or they'd kind of just give me a onceover, hear I'm from Random ... & Dorm Life This is....a touchy subject. For a lot of reasons! And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar ... I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  better idea of what I want from MIT than (dare I say) a whole lot of my classmates. I came from a rural area where education wasn’t especially valued ... about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  protest. My mother, from Nanjing, China, has a green card, and so when I ... and act when and where we judge we can be most effective. Yet I would ... Somalia. At least one student from Iran was already denied boarding a flight

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  , and from then on I had a bizarre craving for Fanta. We left a note for ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  . Distance is good because it is a catalyst for reflection. And I can ... craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new ... begin to shift a little. So yes, I spent my first weekend a little bit up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  year and a half in engineering, I wanted to zoom out away from the nitty ... urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three ... I did was for the Gateway Institute, a program for minority and low ... classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  I had worked hard, very hard, for a long time. Both of these things ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?

  There is no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. For transfer applicants, we accept a maximum of two additional supplemental letters of recommendation from teachers
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  ? There are chains on the one I took a few weeks ago, and the one from 2006 ... a giant playground for grownups where people could swing and do these ... A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a few moves. Okay, I think I can handle that. But no. No, no, no, no ... moved from my room on the 4th floor to an area I like a little bit less on ... , but for the rest of us, entering a new environment can be kind of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  upperclassman is usually only a few feet away. I'm the point person for 7 ... you chose to live. I can't count the number of times I've slipped into a ... than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  Life after college is scary.  I can't believe the time has come when I have to think about the real world.  Things like where to live, what to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Potter (Cliche, I know...). Although leaving MIT for even a semester seemed ... Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014