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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  grandma's house.  A grandma who smokes a lotta weed*." *note that the MIT ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  'm falling in, after things have been going okay for a while. maybe this is the ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how finals period is the time of semester when all the a capella groups give

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  excellent. This class is also a CI-M, a "communications intensive in major ... . These are usually written A-B-C, which means A hours in the classroom, B ... Worse-Is-Better is a better development philosophy than Do

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  whacky number scales: sometimes, the class average is a 40%. And you never ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the Sheraton Hotel in Times Square and fed us at a $$$$ circus-themed French

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  episode that I appear in is #297, so there are many, many other great ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  Engineering with a concentration in Energy, is wide awake at 4:30 am on a ... . We have a core group of very dedicated members. Everyone is involved in ... EECS) with a bunch of sophomores/freshmen is great, particularly since

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... stories and tips. My team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near ... . With the first dome hack in three years, why would it just be a banner

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  Thanks to everyone who left questions in my Q&A! I haven't gotten ... learning it in a theoretical vacuum. This is only in B-tier because we had to ... rest of those in a fresh post here.   Unfortunately I'm not a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... post is from a never-published draft about from my freshman fall 2014 ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by ... can wear jeans or blue hair or have a Dr. Who tattoo and no one cares

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  answer is just this - In college, you have an amazing opportunity to try a ... Taiwan. Early July -> Early August: Back in MIT, working on a UROP ... medical group from Taiwan. The medical group is essentially a medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  have had a longtime interest in transportation, this is my first ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this ... is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  ? Sad is when you get an undesirable grade in a class or your favorite TV ... refutes all that is ephemeral in love. There comes a time, although the ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... lecture wondering, what even is a microcontroller (or microcomputer)? When ... unmatched). I still don't know what a microcontroller is, but no one really

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... functioning buildings, but also designing and constructing places in such a way ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008