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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... Registration: Please register for CPW by March 25 or when your travel plans are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  . For instance, “Hmm, so if I mark an ethnic identity do I get a ... On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like ... (s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... Technology for a Clean Energy Future * Yang Shao-Horn - Session Chair ... attitudes 2:15-2:45pm Break 2:45-4:00pm PANEL SESSION III Energy for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... calendars until after EA selection, so I haven't had time for much else

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... appealing pieces and a better life. You'll know how to gauge for success in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning ... went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put ... .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question, and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... Mystery Hunt, and that is this: no idea is crazy. Ever. For one puzzle, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  empty platitude or a piece of advice that only worked for me. I’ve talked ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  for a second--the moment already zipped by before you could register it ... . i tried scraping a new reed for my oboe but i ende up pressing too ... neglected to make reeds for a while so i've lost the touch one could say. also

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my ... , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... are ways I can make a tangible and very consequential difference for the

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

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  filming videos of myself for my Instagram. I would learn a few dances a week ... answer I have for you guys is… the first time I heard a song I started to ... ball change or pas de bourree (literally thought it was potpourri for a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI ... establish a context for a student without being familiar with the high school ... . I sent in a CD with my application, not to be picked apart for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  along. Jaekyung's second work was a performance art piece he did for a ... " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  room. There were a bunch of tables set up for us and some lab coats ... Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  , and disconnecting the air flow so that you can’t breathe for a few ... ’re familiar with the traditional Pomodoro Technique, where you set a timer for a ... sooner. It has been a game changer for my productivity, especially after I

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a ... MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  eventually forgot about the app for a bit. We didn't even bother deleting it ... making it on the leaderboard for reward points, which wasn't a surprise ... a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  code next week for a different project called TRANSFORM so that it can ... Longfellow and stayed in the garden for a little bit before signing myself up for a free guided tour. The whole thing threw me back to when I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022