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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ...  student support services. they created and encouraged opportunities for students to ... ; i don't know the details. but it's difficult for me to understand how

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

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... post a Mini-Guide to KAPOW for your final hours of prep. And if I miss

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... were asked to identify travel options, routes and fares for the Boston ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... for other schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... , [annotation note="or rather, I want to WANT to work for it"]I want to work for ... ’s the lesson I need to be learning. It hasn’t worked for me yet.   

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  interest to early and regular action applicants. For Regular Action ... been sent to MIT. Our College Board Code (for SAT and TOEFL) is 3514 and ... will be deferred to regular action for further consideration (and some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up ... managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... texted a friend to ask for help. I stood up, keeping my head as still as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  good!) Yupyup. Back to studying for finals =p ... My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  I am flying back to Boston tonight (why do I always book redeyes?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I ... Orientation-getting-to-know-you-ish WHEN: Thursday, August 31, sometime around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... projects responding to tasks somewhere along the lines of “design a space for ... , etc. But for now, I’m just looking forward to next week – when I will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for ... left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... by those who came before us, to define the unknown for ourselves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  started in this job) because I really want for you to understand all of ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part ... , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... ’s okay. for me, bupropion is turning out to be okay. my psychiatrist and i ... ? is the point to make me feel normal? what does normal even mean, if for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... to sift endlessly through web sites or spend our summers studying for ... disapproval. It's all about them. Always. For example, if you called to say

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... because we want to have prefrosh for as long as possible, and there must

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  took for me to punch it into place felt like several minutes. Feel bad ... bad for having told them not to worry about printing stuff since I might ... take an Uber." I didn't have Uber. She called one for me, telling it to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019