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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  27 people. There are a lot of girls in this class, though I guess not a ... I've been in. Probably a third of it is grad students, and while 9 is ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  were part of your epic journey, and I'm sure they'll be very happy to ... Weekend! (CPW) So I never got to come to CPW when I got in, but after going through the my last CPW (which is also my first, along with the '12s), I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is ... rush scores to us. We will receive your scores in plenty of time to be ... everyone doing? Not too stressed out, I hope? While you're working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  In January, I heard about an Arts at MIT initiative that provides ... long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in ... first. I wanted to try painting in gouache since it was an unfamiliar

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... implications: How does global warming increase the intensity of hurricanes? Can we make adult stem cells capable of generating any cells in the body so
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... ridiculous stroke of luck, had been moved from Wednesday to Friday. So all I ... least terrible sick week ever. Tonight, I made myself a big pot of soup

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  blog. Note that because of the holiday, responses may be delayed. I will ... ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... process, so I feel I should remind folks that P(big envelope in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write ... (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  game plan. I revised the game plan, again. The morning of, I paced in my ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no ... wrong? In the leadup to bread day, I shifted my nervousness to the bread

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... didn’t live in a dormitory last year like the rest of the freshmen but I ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... ."  Specifically, in our narrow domain of admissions, we know that many students were ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings ... the scanner in CopyTech and my belated post could finally be uploaded. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... took a bit of time. laundry is in the basement, which is annoying since i ... during the week of REX. i participated in it a bit, going from hall to hall

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena ... time. Good night everyone. I'll post the final version of my thesis ... I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in ... pigeons who live in modern-day downtown Boston. I was really proud of myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... out of my league. and in some strange protective mechanism, i forced ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of the best. Don't let this stop you from doing all of the great things in ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005