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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action, with decisions released

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... to lead the team in spirit. Yours truly was the bearer of Hood Beav ... bones intact! In fact, our team actually did pretty well, with a loss of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... having it today, lied back down in bed and slept until 3 PM. Had a bizarre ... in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own ... disruptions of the pandemic have only increased our inclination in this regard

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  checklist, which will now be turned off. In order to reduce any extra stress ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... ="75178" image2="75168" /] Sophomore fall: 21H.270, Latinx in the Age of Empire

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background. or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... admission to 697. Though they are all different in their own way —  sailors ... pandemic have only increased our inclination in this regard."]deferred 9

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... Biotech Group and the UROP office and went in without many expectations ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... longer there, ask me in the comments about the hidden vault in the secret ... , part of the the Institute's new front door in Kendall Square. The new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  ="64169" image3="64141" /] There was a check-in process for first-year students ... ="64141" /] I was the first person in my suite to arrive on campus (I arrived at 8 ... pod in the lounge. The lounge's previous owners seemed to have painted

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... latest in this series, from Pat, who wrote me earlier this week: Hello ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation ... . In my work with prospective college students, (as an admission officer ... ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I ... deserve that A in the first place! You could never finish your code all the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for ... thing you learned today in class, and so forth. MIT works by giving people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in ... class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020