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• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  part of the Course 4 department that I'm planning to tackle on as well ... successfully pursued the intersection of technology and design. After the ... We were so lucky to have the UA Alumni Affairs Committee invite John

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... that the rest of the world is missing.  Sam says that very few founders ... small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow because the milk expires today, but is actually perfect since Spring ... When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor ... covered in aluminum foil and bake on the top rack of oven for 10 - 15

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being ... 't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was ... Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... , reading things, lying down on the other side of the room, chatting people ... served hot chocolate in the middle of lobby 10. this fall's finals week was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day ... one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is ... 's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  's great about you Chris. You're just a bit soft. Just the right amount of ... going. Over the past month I've tried to unpack for you some of our ... . Multiple rounds of these committees then whittle the class down into its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... evaluated by members of the MIT art & architecture faculty. Your artistic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the ... ??? Anyway, the debate is now beginning, more word soon. 8:11 pm Master of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... bound is your sanity.) Here's the anticlimax: I am not one of those ... the average MIT class; instead of generalized, abstracted equations, the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... ’t remember anything extremely special or specific or memorable or out-of-the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  who lives in the city. Here's a photo dump/itinerary of what we did ... ="117345" image3="117375" /] From there, the main activity/sight of the day was Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments ... have an obsession with productivity for the pure sake of productivity ... I was a small child. I’ve now (presumably) grown out of it, to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015