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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  is another record high: about a 2% increase from last year, with both ... opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from all 50 states, 65 ... and pastoralism — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... the Obama administration. There was a real buzzing of enthusiasm ... . Surrounded by booths and booths of companies and corporations felt like a total

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  decisions and provide paid release from teaching for childbearing or care of a ... Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  yourself. It may seem counterintuitive to take a break from studying ... .” -Anonymous   Lastly, I want to leave you with a few excerpts from my ... they act tough and say they aren't. Aside from those few classifiable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was worried not about getting rejected from MIT, but rather what would happen if they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many ... , you could be a spy and infiltrate an evil corporation or discover Captain Nemo's abandoned submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Now

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  MIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript? Weren't they all sent before ... . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  " with MIT! ;) 14. Sometime soon, Matt will post a blog about Admission ... be coming soon to a postbox near you. :) 5,897. Let any of us know if ... receive a very mysterious phone call. 84,626. Check. it. out! boo-yah! 433

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking system. If we are missing ... for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application ... , Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry. Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT] From: Dan Kirsch To: [Burton Conner Discussion] Subject: Massages tonight ... announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it ... everything below my waist was just a little bit nippy. But actually, I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  , a few minutes from the dome"]Hayden Library[/annotation] or some other ... gorgeous park that's about a 20-minute drive from MIT. we spent the day there ... . i also got pictures back from a dance showcase my team, Mocha Moves

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  Instagram DM from my host sister. it felt like such a ridiculous way to ... , lighthearted, and brimming with stories from his many travels. he taught me how ... mom along. she got to spent a few days with my entire host family, which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  like I had from last week. Tuesday: Dropped 6.0002. It wasn’t a ... I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  a decently high score i guess but it's really all been downhill from ... you'll be able to learn a thing or two from - or at the very least be ... Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  as a college differentiates it from the five schools, and signals that ... Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018