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• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  , and how you see yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find ... an applicant well as both a student and a person. For example: the ... recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... stay at MIT forever for at least five more years.  It’s a full circle ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  words a day, every day, for 1000 days. Two years and nine months, out of a ... beliefs. For now, for the coming summer, I have a few small things I want ... is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  school and for the last 3 semesters here). In terms of school, I’m a course ... be using as a prop for your next play or as a coaster for the water ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the ... spring out of a bush and detain me for stealing a bike lock). Then I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  a U.S. citizen if you currently hold a United States permanent ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  -Conner, a dorm that’s closing down until my senior year for renovations. For ... a floor. The freshman girls also painted records for the senior girls ... floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  , a prosthetic socket that will allow the user to reshape the socket for ... UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a question), and answered that the Kumail would be a scale of magnitude for the ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic ... judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... Invocation for Beginnings" (which is a fantastic video but a bit profanity

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... a bike (and a lock that could pass for a tank), get out often, it's 5

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at ... ’t a night for his usual spectacular performance. But he was fun to watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  comics. She drew a webcomic (Demonology 101) for five years—700 pages ... .   For those of you who think your college major locks you into a set ... (traditional). She cranks out a page per day, and works for twelve hours (with a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  think scaling back was a good idea for me. I was able to devote a lot more ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... grappling with serious personal issues, to go do a favor for the hot athlete

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  birding. More specifically, we were looking for a relatively uncommon bird ... time I saw a cardinal for the rest of the day, my heart fluttered a bit ... enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  questions, rather than someone like me, who wasn't actually looking for a ... that there should be a huge price for declaring faith- that'll keep you ... if you grow up in a Christian family, there's a huge price for NOT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive pool of applicants in Early, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was ... . We'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive Early Action applicant pool, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was ... .  We'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013