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• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my ... my bike, but I haven't seen it in any of the normal places I go, so I ... of the coolest places ever, tEp, this weekend, partially because they

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  ;     Also, we have bunnies! As promised in the subheading of ... WILG, since the two are so inextricably intertwined. My memories of dorm ... institutional authority, and on eating yummy food. I've met a lot of the most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... fueled by the adrenaline of venturing off MIT's campus the previous day, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few ... say the white space is actually just equivalent to my 28 hours of work ... spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math ... Bridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of ... letter of recommendation, we strongly recommend asking one of your math or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self ... into the root of her resentment—but she’s unafraid to make that angsty ... Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... ! Because the majority of America is not uneducated, wasteful, and overweight. I ... and grandma made were of course the best I ever had, being homemade and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... residents—we were notified of his death before the rest of campus was, early ... . in the wake of what happened, the immediate and tremendous support i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... of the only people I knew in Burton-Conner at that time was Spam. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you ... ) Lead clubs The nature of my friend network Favorite etymologies

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... other reason). We use the same processes and standards of review during ... normal conditions. In other words, we're making the best of a challenging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... a couple of hours, and I found myself lying on the floor of the lounge debating the finer points of reaction scheduling in a batch process with our

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... of birth are included, as well as the word "QuestBridge." Once you ... interview happened two or more weeks ago AND you have submitted Part 1 of the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released ... moments of joy and curiosity, rather than being consumed by the Waiting of ... passes. I'll see you on the other side of decisions!   

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025