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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time ... item you are checking on and the approximate date that it was received by MIT, and we'll check to see if it's been included in your application.
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5 ... belief that things will get done, no matter how impossible it seemed in the ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... better way to realize how huge the river is than trying to paddle down it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . At some point, it's worth sitting down and actually calculating how ... months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  only home to this little venture, but this year it branched out to ... knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by ... : This is when it started to get really exciting, especially when we saw

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and ... not sure how that went, but it was definitely fun. So yeah, the book ... head, and it’s rhythmic enough for me that I don’t care so much about how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of how Git works! The Java itself was pretty fast-paced, which makes sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  ’t disappear after a week or even two-week long break. It generally takes months ... expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening. I wouldn’t quite call it mental exhaustion. That’s already happened

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  relief and triumph, like when you find your phone in the washer and it ... new life. The whole time I waited for some sign. This is it, it was going to say, I made it. Sometimes while walking through campus I notice

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  Saturday nights, no matter how much I don't wanna. It's gotten easier to ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  . It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ... snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... an actual break for me this year- it seems like almost every other

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a mechanical engineer anyway?"* *you're probably not thinking this, but hey it ... , and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages an elaborate delivery ceremony. How did this all start? The history of ... a massive bezel bearing an image of a beaver. Its official name is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... " (by the way, it's pset, not PSET. pset looks so much nicer. actually ... 't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking ... your way home from Boston Logan, it’s free. I Instagrammed the trip back ... advertises the next Red Line trains. It will list Alewife, Ashmont, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014