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• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you ... you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  . At any other university, people whipping out a chess board during ... crowd going to watch and join in. We are really cool like that. MIT OOH

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if, if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... the calendar. Postseason: where we play in our conference tournament and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current ... meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... and this Sunday will be the 4th class (out of 7) in the program ... passed so fast it's like crazy. -Got tired of working in a biology lab, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture ... lowing pets in dorms, and drawing attention from schools across the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... only think in numbers and chair conformations from here on out. 1-3 PM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  (GIRs). Not all classes in this roadmap are offered regularly. For ... Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... distance between souls in crisply-produced three-minute bundles. [caption id ... exist somewhere outside of your own body. Identifying something universal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... countless people who ventured into the Marvel Cinematic Universe or even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  fictional universes. i've always been someone who gets too invested in the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... 'd done in many months. i wasn't sure what to do—i always prioritized

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those ... off-guard was in that moment I finally realized everything I learned

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... being a nurse. Her village had clean water, unlike many other villages in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016