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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  We have some important deadlines listed here, but please take a look ... deadline for Early Action is November 1. We accept test results from any test ... Regular Action is January 5. We accept test results from any test taken
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  snowing. i hadn’t seen snow in years as a native of los angeles; from my ... to the beach, albeit a boston beach three thousand miles away from my ... moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... as writing a prompt on the other board that visitors can write answers

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... was a far cry from real adulthood. I’m in this not-unpleasant in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  train ride to Sondrio, a small valley town in the Alps, about 30km from ... come from, a surprisingly strong feminist side of me came out, sparked by ... Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  before I move away from the East Coast for a while. I saw two Broadway ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  . It happened again roughly 4 minutes later as I transitioned from a run ... definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight ... out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon ... could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , though, it evolved from a source of amusement into a source of irritation ... from Victoria’s Secret to Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan group that ... Williams College. Long before I became politically conscious, he told me a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  to determine the absolute best course of action from a purely ... Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  , doubles, triples, and quads affect a student's experience? Research from the ... 's [annotation note="from arch principles--MIT has a goal of adding 700 new beds to ... of my friends lived in a Maseeh quad across from another quad, and the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on ... ’s possible to have a real dinner without taking real time away from studying ... cook from a cookbook but I ended up mostly baking, and everything else

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  from mooncat[/caption] Method 3: Hammer a flathead slot Time taken: 15 ... 'working' on a manicured persona (i.e. learn sorority chants/dances, gossip and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from ... deviation from a monotonous mid-pandemic life in suburban New Hampshire. i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  ). The weather was a welcome change from the Boston cold and London fog ... night. I got a somewhat stern e-mail from my adviser's assistant the day ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  so hard sometimes Be calm Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand ... This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a ... users. Strictly speaking, nothing prevents a user from accessing the email ... suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  a musical proto-language arose from selection for sex and sociability ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  card bills. But, I'm not doing that from a public computer, nor am I ... easier route – borrowing a power adapter from a fellow Baker resident. I e ... ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010