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• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you ... , would Jupiter blow up? The gas giants are mostly hydrogen, but I guess you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... group. So in late September, when Apple recruiters visited MIT, I leapt ... obsessed over my resume in LaTeX.  I even timed the walk from campus to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in ... .011 is "traditional" physics, but I'm not sure exactly how one would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming traffic while walking and texting, but I think this technology would ... available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.   ... inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in ... well in such a short time, that anyone who speaks to computers would say

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  with mines - I would say that I leverage social software to facilitate ... , we'll see if we can work it in. I can't wait to work with all of you ... , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  write [annotation note="in fact, i wrote around 60 poems in 60 days during ... annotation, i wrote a grand total of 2 poems in 2020."]write as much recently ... , which have primarily been in math and computer science. Despite that, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... was a lot less painful! I thought that this would actually be my easiest ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... enroll in is a college where they would be happiest. Finding a space where ... COLLEGES DO! At a previous institution I worked for, we would provide notes

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve loved that as an undergrad.” “... oh ... physically moving parts in this project, thankfully (I’ve learned my lesson ... components in place, I finally had a fully functional system: https

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... giving. Anne >> It's true. Of all the leadership roles I took in

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... dawns on me that I left my coffee in my dorm room. Ten minutes to my 9 ... bread in the toaster and only realise I cremated my toast when I smell it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  time we mail regular action decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the ... applications any school (including MIT) would love to have in their student body

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006