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• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... action applications for other schools. You should still put the same energy ... applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Ramirez, a product of Wichita Falls Hirshi High School who is graduating ... of the really great schools in the country," he added. "The fact that ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  these glimmers of east campus. <3 five months ago, i poorly planned ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... . i always knew i wanted to live here, mostly attributed to my years of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  perhaps one of the most iconic Gen-Z movies of them all: High School Musical ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  to this concept in high school,” and my brain cried out (silently, of ... achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and

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

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  played seven competitive sports. In my three years of American high school ... freshman year of high school and my sophomore year, I amazingly found a crew ... love. Ironically, I think I am one of the only people from my high school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  and private high schools still exist, the admissions arrangements of ... the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... of my friends are also graduating a semester early. It's one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  an answer, thanks to the sheer number of blogs out there and the diverse group of bloggers writing them - diverse in experiences, class years ... your first year are. The only group of students completely unrepresented

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  though (after witnessing the sad drooping of my slice) and offered to trade ... , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  going to four different places, so I thought I could offer some reviews of ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  -winning research so many of them did as high-school students was pretty mindboggling ... program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... ,700 high school students from more than 75 countries, regions and territories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... My oldest son graduated from high school this summer and is now ... his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  That school up the river, you know, the one with the brick buildings ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who ... prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  , compared to every other school I know of and/or received aid from, MIT ... It's admissions season! To all of you who were that right combination of smart, kind, and lucky to be granted early admission to MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  by the end of IAP, a goal that kept both of us (and Chris) very busy ... This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot of cool MIT-related posts, like this one, or this one, or this one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017