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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... other than my potential to do well at MIT. For a little while, I even ... mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  exposed brick walls.) Ok, now I have to have a halloween costume by ... Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  a lot have no finals, just projects), and four finals turned out to be ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... clunkiness to your username. Say your username out loud a few times to check ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side ... percentage of people who dye their hair weird colors.  It may come to you as no

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city ... as my surrogate hometown, I still cling to a few Midwestern habits that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... early. Then, refer to 1. Don’t apply as a fictional character. You know ... your time to remember all the cool things you did in school. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... sitting next to the incrediblyy nice Susan Whitehead. Ahh! P.S. A shoutout ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your ... parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... from a lackluster turn of phrase, or to propel a drowning post inherently

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... , since you couldn’t skip a workout and promise to make it up the next day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  , projector checks (we had to bring a new projector courtesy of Disney since our ... On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26-100[/annotation] MIT's Lecture Screening Committee hosted a special free screening

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022