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• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

    While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... note="puzzlers"]game-problem-loving-people[/annotation] and other ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Dan wrote: "I think creative writing and contemporary literature (1 ... than BRITISH LITERATURE (honors), but it's not as challenging and that ... 'll be in AP calculus, AP physics, AP biology, AP US government and spanish

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  just finished my freshman year, and what a scary and tumultuous time it ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... yes/no, I think simply understanding the class system and the choices

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  during lecture. I'm taking three technicals this semester, and if there ... and it has gotten me more into chemistry, but lectures are lowkey ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are the pics I took over like and hour or something, running around Simmons and seeing who's who in this crazy zoo. Christmas Party: Tonight my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting ... decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge ... pieces of data reveal about the characters and their relationships, if it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii and Japan you will visit for sure one day Clean that clothes chair u

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  circumstances, I've had to pick and choose who to spend my [rare] free time with, and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... required to by MIT"]flu shot[/annotation] and felt so...distant? maybe it was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  -to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have ... .[/annotation]:  The Friendly Toast is astir with early-morning chatter and the bubbling ... plates.  My eyelids are still thick with sleep—after Stef and I walked

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a ... 's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give ... , and current research projects that you can check out. I also cheated on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger ... common during my undergraduate days and they were shocked. Yes, if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  Hello, dear RA applicants! It's almost winter break and you are ... . We understand and want this process to be as painless as possible ... and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose culture and residents feel like the best fit for you. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  2015 has had its ups and downs for pretty much everyone on planet ... past year went well, what didn't go well, and what I could've done better ... sliver of the voices at MIT, and yet we capture many of the experiences

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  ; < <  You can log in using the same username and password ... MIT Class of 2019. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have ... admitted Class of 2019 includes makers and marksmen, eidetics and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... . Nevermind the why and wherefore: let's roll back the clock to April 2011, when ... had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear ... get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014