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• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to ... amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... point. I admire your tenacity and your resilience through classes and the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a ... of MIT's famous classrooms housed underneath the Great Dome. I stopped ... , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I’ve concluded from the past three years of college life: People are not as cool ... about - academics, career, finances, etc.- so much so that the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, despite the title of this entry): Of Montreal and ... ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess's favorite people ever, and I called Jess the minute I found out I got into MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  ; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course ... head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is ... at their [annotation note="The frontend of an MIT student's email

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  at MIT, but usually isn't the focus of the Course 7 classes I've taken ... function within the context of a super, super tiny cell. It's also a pre ... year in the depths of RingComm and the summer working in science policy

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... those students of the particular culture, but also students who are ... same goes for religion. As far as the rest of me goes, I think that yes

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... fall semester on a bit of a low note, but break gave me the time i needed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to ... the other hand i think there is a portion of mit that does know how to ... and now i have a chunk of work to do for my urop but it's the weekend i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... people, international students only make about 11 percent of the MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  -mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... . So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Deferred A forum.

  

  We had a record number of Early Action applicants this year, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then ... shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 ... , many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not admitted

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004