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• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  fantastic Alumni to put together Admitted Student Gatherings to welcome you ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... passion for physics at MIT. He chose to study here at MIT, but that doesn

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of people who will have to hang together, and there is a great sense of ... as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... says that his most memorable experience was putting together a very high

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... pace, is that I am constantly being asked what I'm going to do when I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was taught to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice, cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  leaning close together to hear one another. I ask them about their world ... be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  us to work together as we will when we leave the shelter of a college ... chair, working together to finish a pset or a project. Student ... wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you ... early this morning”.   It’s really difficult for me to process that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  despite my inability to skate, I have played exactly one game of IM ice ... conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12.) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... related to diversity and inclusion, which had been long-time passions of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number, reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016