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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... with comments. I'll have a couple more entries (gosh, I'm overdue) in ... . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• 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 in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how

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

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in ... coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen students take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  a pset-test-class kind of way. More in a let-me-absorb-as-much-of-this-place-as-I-can-before-I-leave kind of way. In three short months, I'll be graduating...can't believe it ... finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , "I bet I can name that tune in three notes." And then I think about the ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... anyone at MIT own a BMX bike? ANYone?" I actually know a few people in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with ... (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign ... mine. There are plenty of good schools I can go to." Mr. Conroy says more ... . Every time it happens, I can't believe it is happening." And every time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  've compiled that I have some interest in taking and you, dear reader, are going ... considerations to keep in mind as you choose. 5.12 Organic Chemistry I (MWF 12-1PM ... chemistry in high school and I thought it was really cool (albeit really hard

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  like Rindone, who grew up in Revere but was born in East Boston, as well as students from different parts of the world who settled in the city with their families. Differences in background and national origin did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

    I can’t think about being in love without feeling violated anymore ... ’re so little.” “You’re mine.” “I can see the fear in your eyes.” “I’m a ... , the swell of my hips. I can’t get around them. I look in the mirror and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... first one: I love sleeping. And dreaming. I can’t function with less than 6 hours. The second: I exist in the mornings for breakfast. I stocked

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... kitchen in the process. Nevertheless, I’m actually incredibly impressed by ... It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... other questions beyond what I showed in the video or was written in the articles, feel free to ask and I can do my best to share more of my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  -bad letter even worse. I only hope that you can accept our apology and ... override our other efforts to show you - in pretty much every way we can ... MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been ... type of person, I was impressed by everything these groups had built in ... a little more - but in the mean time, just thought I’d share these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012