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• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very ... history of Stanford University. There's a lot else but that's a rant for ... classes with the same demographics of people that I would at almost any

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voters that exist here, with more than 50 colleges and universities ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  a rain of pastries. Or the secret to being good at and/or actually ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  of new math but not a lot, and i don’t think i became a better ... probably turn out alright one of the mentors at hacklodge, let’s call him c ... i look back at the last few years i can trace out a long line of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... ... I've spent the past four years at [state university] which have been ... portfolio of activities aren't necessarily coherent, many don't help at all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  through Boston Common - we watched Sharks3D at the New England Aquarium ... thrown on us at Blue Man Group Thursday: - a tour of IPI pharmaceuticals ... So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  beginning to the two best days of my life. Even registration at something ... . At the end of it Tron Guy dazzled us with a light show. Ooh! Shiny ... SO MUCH INTERNET AT ONE TABLE! Their discussion was great, lots of talk

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work ... got excited about the prospect of contributing to a budding program at ... very little of it at the time, but I knew that I would soon have to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  arrived at the gate! a round of applause broke out since we were now sure ... euros worth of candy, and i intend for this to last me at least an entire ... because of the delays, i would have had to spend another night at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT ... , Tom Stoppard and his contemporaries. One of my favorite classes at MIT ... In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions at Harvard: "There are people who arrive at college out of gas," says William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard ... from Robin Mamlet, who, at the time, was Dean of Admissions at Stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark's place as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... mailing list). But being at home, I knew practice of any sort would be hard ... is offered every quarter. At MIT, we got semesters, but there are 5 PE

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... committing. But because of how much we began looking at other schools by the ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... is a new topic, and every 2.00-even integer is the continuation of the ... of selling out is no way to treat yourself. Coming soon: a look at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  too holds true for hundreds of other colleges/universities around the ... sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... by any means, but if there was list of everything that goes into making

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021