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• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions ... ,927 Admitted regular action (including deferred students) 898 Offered a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... 'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... years in Houston and didn't stand one day in Boston, go figure). So, there

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• 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 ... pretty informally, the last time I did a sport formally was in 8th grade ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall

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

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... spaces that can support such a large audience. Typically, we plan months in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and ... -like, but there were several gems in there that balanced those other poems out

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  Machine Shops, Part 2 In case you haven't read it: Machine Shops, Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... lounge and lab. Yes, that's a hammock in the background. Plus, there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I ... search for them in my notes and instantly see every book, article, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... are people who have already graduated still in this pool. There is ... glassblowing class in the future sometime. But, it's pretty unlikely. Greek Life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  University, he's a great friend, the kind of person that sends me a text in the ... enzymes is called Ihtfpase, why are you still reading this? – Running in ... one freshman in the eye without freaking him or her out to begin a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... price in September, mononucleosis in October, vaccinations in November and February, and a series of three major throat infections in February and March

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note ... used to like to take every elevator and every stairwell in [annotation

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  convenience. - When I was younger, so much younger than today (in high school ... loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no ... ’m not saying that I never needed anybody’s help in any way, but I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get ... hardest college in the world, though someone said there's another school in ... people in classes based on their level of preparation for each course. For

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009