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• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... i was as a freshman. a lot of the things that i thought were really ... . things like the one class i took on a whim, but it completely changed how i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  to a thousand more questions than the ones I came in looking for ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in ... fun for me over the years :)   Greta Lawler '27, Urban Studies

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  things even if you never do them again, and for the same reason there’s a ... . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... a joke? Or stand up, turn around, and tell them the color of their hat? Certainly none of mine. I faltered quite a few times in the interview and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  four a.m. psets would be for naught . . . plus, I felt uncomfortable with ... [annotation note="I watched one of my friends fill out the form to drop a twelve ... psetting for a subject I didn't care about. so I [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept December testing for Regular Action?

  You can report all tests taken through the end of December for ... proficiency test scores for RA applicants through the January test dates. To submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That's right, tonight is the Early Action telethon when current students spend their evening ... the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week. So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... where I work. For that month, I was under the impression that very few ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  general, it was just a bad time. I started asking myself the “why was I admitted here?” question in a very bad way. Everyone was ready for spring ... . Spring break felt more like a gasp for breath than a vacation. I spent time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... saying they tested positive, and when i developed a sore throat on the last ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... leisure. But, for the first seven weeks we met, it was really nice! I took ... tortillas aren't half bad). I was musing with a friend the other day that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  So, less than THREE WEEKS until CPW! All of us in the office are working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on ... MIT account and sign up by April 2nd. For those that haven't decided yet, come

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  this past weekend. I hope you guys had as much fun as I did! A quick update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to Chris Merrill '12 for sending me the group photo from our Meet The

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of ... understanding, the group was formed by Salma I. '22 in late 2019 following a ... about the idea of a club dedicated to various forms of stitching. The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  no longer have a 57-credit limit for the spring semester, nor do they fall under the A/B/C/No Record grading system that second semester ... assigned a departmental advisor, who can guide you through the course

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... develop a slightly healthier, more understanding mindset towards the way I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  loves to binge-watch Avatar: The Last Airbender Paolo A. '21 of Nevada ... , will break out into a song from a musical at the slightest provocation ... Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020