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• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  of my junior year, with annotations where things are now drastically ... about being on the organizing team side of things!  During team meetings, we like to start off with an icebreaker that’s some variation of slay

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of ... , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... design and build working alpha prototypes of new products, learning about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... start of my freshman fall, we were still amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... in some cases, this is true; some of my graduating friends are sticking ... in the area. some of them will be visiting every iap for mystery hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ... second is something that spun out of a series of conversations between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016