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• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  programs, or sicp. and suitably so, the class is taught in scheme, which is a ... . 09:55. one of the nice things about living in east campus is that all ... because this is one out of only two in-person lectures, the other one being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... about safety! There are a lot of other really cool projects going on in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... there who are just like you, going through the same anxiety, the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  Ave VARIOUS FRAT BOYS: (thinking) I wonder if that kid is a freshman ... last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to ... bought blinds the other day at your store and they're the wrong size.. is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -interfering RNA (siRNA) in mice. It may seem odd for a student like me, who plans ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... . Because summer time is a time for growth. Growth in whatever way you choose ... Texas-Southwestern, and I had gotten in! I remember letting out a sigh of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I went to a World Cup Game!!!!⚽⚽ and why I think it's just like Pokemon

  

  The world cup is happening!! Richie's delusions aside, it's been a ... boring. A 90 minute game that can end in 0-0 final score?? What??  But ... travel in their immediate area on their journey which is more realistic

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 2, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to ... culmination of these units created a full picture of what made me who I am. So ... . How do you measure a year in the life?

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 's not even to say that signaling is inherently wrong. In this situation

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... had seen so many other people do. I don't know if this is common in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to ... .) What follows is a blog post Lauren wrote last month about one of her ... is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  graduate education in the case of a graduate student. The faculty member in ... , I visited Student Support Services (S3) to meet with a dean who would ... the “OX” in my grade report as a placeholder until then. I said I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... speak at Math Prize for Girls, a competition for top female students in ... published in a combinatorics journal and got me an Erdös number of two (which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... anxiety nearly left me incapacitated during a severe case of burnout in ... myself, and I managed to catch myself up in my classes. I made a huge

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  [annotation note="I love this song. It was written by Stan Rogers, who is a ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... two in completely different eras. A “Historical Chantey” was a work song

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024