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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their own ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the ... promise this decision is not going to be as painful for as long as you think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’s hardness. Background But first, let me address a question that’s undoubtedly ... hardness value of about 20 HV, is about as hard as paper. In other words, not ... ://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardness. March 2023. [2] National Park Service. Mohs Hardness Scale. https

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  in Cambridge for summer 2023. I would be working on a more technical ... Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP ... EC REX party before its 2023-24 renovation)[/caption] MIT was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... Chris Peterson's fault. Well, by 2023 I'd run four marathons and was ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a ... fraternity house, but not Greek affiliated). I’m so lucky that my current ... , undergraduates usually take four or five classes. Taking only one class works very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  challenges with this, not least the fact that the 2023s themselves only lived ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... belabor this point, because that's not the point of this post. really, just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  March. If you are deferred, you are not expected to send us any new ... ,251 students that we will not be able to offer them admission this year. This ... difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay in the end

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  without prejudice in Regular Action. If you are deferred, you are not ... pool, we have also informed 2,815 students that we will not be able to ... trust me: it works out okay in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or ... students and even [annotation note="it wasn't creepy do not worry

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can ... the best work required drawing on the full range of human experience and ... the Supreme Court and the fact that we do not do give a legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This ... , and the Lady with Not So Much Money It's a really good movie. I had no ... People The Show That I Do Not Explain to People That Show About Actual

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Eva: I'm not linking this because it's private but this is a Google ... to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... ="This is not sponsored and I have never been."]a upscale mini golf bar in

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

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and part three. Hour 70: 7:50 AM PST, January 6th, 2023 location ... , my body has not developed any aches or pains over these 70 hours. All ... open in coach, and the lounge is not yet fully awake, I suspect. It is my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  finicky to work with because it scrunched up easily under the sewing machine ... match up).  Here’s my final dress! It wasn’t not as finely crafted as ... Wide Tim and a member of the 2023 Ring Committee! Photo by Ria '24

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of ... cross country (2022, 2023), women’s track and cross country (2024, 2025 ... championship and having a 4.0 GPA? Now that’s a flex. Conclusion It’s not every

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  into a diverse group of tight-knit individuals [annotation note= "not ... told me that he still receives letters addressed to the nickname that was ... name suggests, you have to create costumes out of anything that’s not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  In broad strokes, my life in 2025 is not so different from my life in ... : you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... not being on campus. I took four classes, and had one UROP, and hung out

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  of the craft. It’s not about being a Creative Genius whose work is ... Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading ... ’s, because—back when we worked on campus—he sat at the desk behind me and could

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  the courage to go to bed, but had to wake up before noon to work on ... [/caption] gathering the seniors to work on hockey awards felt surreal. three years ago ... so wrong. given our past three years of work for the floor, hockey

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  .[/caption] … well, maybe that’s not exactly how it all happened, but it sure felt that ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... upon landing, I could tell that Manaus was a very cool place (but not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023