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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time ... have a flexible plan A, B, and C It's hard to get anywhere without some

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  % to 10%, with a mean and median of ~5%. What are the realities here? I ... shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of ... aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of ... as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  to procrastinate on your Regular Decision applications or a distraction ... a rattlesnake. I encourage you to read more about his journey and who ... ). From an outside perspective, Mike Posner seems to be a person who, having

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  and u become afraid and need to be rescued by our tech support i.e. a ... I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and swaddled long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... clunkiness to your username. Say your username out loud a few times to check ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the ... [/annotation] said in a statement: [This brief asks] the Court to uphold over 40 years ... —  and only for the reason —  that it is "narrowly tailored...to further a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  , I started keeping a daily blog; a sort of space to vent about the past ... ="I watched physics presentations and travelled to a debate tournament ... is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... mechanics unit we’d briefly covered to design a raft that would support my ... Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  machine suitable for a server, with delivery to my dorm, for a mere $10 ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and ... acted as a prop to distract onlookers. (Thanks to Hannah for the photos

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the ... hatched a plot to create what would be affectionately called, [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... helpfulness doesn't extend only to MIT students -- if you come here on a visit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... eighteen, but really more of a prelude to twenty. A pause and a period of ... to zoom and watch a physics lecture, and she invited all my friends to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013