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• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not only did I learn to live alone in all the practical senses of the word

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... on top of this.   January is the last testing date that can ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... to the idea of us having fruitbowl every week? Yes. The rationale for ... was dark and cold, ❄️ And the frosh were growing old. 👴 The end of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the ... discussion that may sound all too familiar to regular readers of the blogs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... didn’t feel like I would dislike the content of 2.001 that much. I wouldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys ... were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In ... where or when the idea of life-long friends was planted in my head, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... the workflow of professional mathematicians (other than ramanujan i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... ="600"] i learned the "stretch and squash" principle of animation by ... i'm just so proud of it (ignore the bad camera work though) [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too ... , and you no longer feel like the youngest part of the MIT community ... looking forward to escaping the bitter cold weather of Boston. So where did

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  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 on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays

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

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about ... compounding murders of so many innocent black americans, the protests about them ... stray comment in the blogger slack about the diversity of the bloggers

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021