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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... my stomach folded into thin layers after most of my high school friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  year, I was in charge of, and in high school and even earlier, I always ... satisfying. Some of my strongest memories from high school, alongside staying ... things -- for the last couple years of high school, I stayed quite

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... countries and four continents. The students come from top schools in applicant ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... to). -My Spring 2008 Classes (did you know we only have 18 school days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... stressful, believe me, I'm applying to graduate school and every day I call my

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  idea of a school less familiar — in a city we've never lived, in a world ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there four years ago when we were seniors in high school, and we're sure many

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  !  But with REX being the opening salvos of the school year, this time ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school ... …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a ... lot more exciting than either of them expected. I really liked the music ... about it, but I saw MTG's production of Cabaret early this year which I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  understanding of and flexible with late documents from schools than with late ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  thought of myself as exceedingly driven. High school Shorna was ambitious ... Shorna sets in. In high school, people were scared of me. I’ll sometimes ... , outspoken, vivacious person. I think many of my high school friends might

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  school students), and Cascade (a five-weekend set of classes for high school students)."]It is one of many programs organized by ESP ... reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  also interested in high school research competitions, including (but not limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... -12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... their waitlists. Large waitlist movement at a few schools has ripple

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008