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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... remember distinctly thinking I did not want a school to make me. I didn ... there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I'm just not sure how ... -virtual semester. I try not to think too hard about what should have been and what

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... wet. Not to mention, it’s also super comfy. Along with the socks, I wear ... and I kid you not, it took a solid 90 minutes for my legs to thaw

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  , not in 9-11 grades. How to indicate this applying on-line? Also a ... not yet reached, so should i ask them to send the scores again" And C ... up. Cesar: You can do TOEFL in January if you wish. You do not need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers collection, not gonna lie. Obviously, we didn't do our research, since we each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  application to contact you, so please monitor your inbox and respond promptly. Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to ... not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  disagreements with my history/grade teacher, I am not sure how to make that clear ... 's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  numbers of [annotation note="lol i'm not going to put the name here to not ... i decided that this was not worth it and decided to leave and never go ... lighting to show how beautiful the cross-section was. but like, why was i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  (at least, not yet). That's not to say that the pace of learning isn ... more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how to give an honest assessment of myself is probably one of the most ... not want to do anything except sleep, play video games, and occasionally ... how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... +% of applicants, will receive letters informing them that we do not have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ! What's not to love? 2. Overlooking lobby 7 from the second or third floor ... him not to). In case you didn't see it, it said Mollie told me that I ... Firefox religiously (although not enough of one to not use Windows XP

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  will take more than one day to do it. However, that's not to say I don ... procrastinate, I still take time to relax no matter how much work I'm facing, but ... (that I don't yet regret at all, and hope to continue not regretting) I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... high school I wanted to be anything on Earth but dear God not an engineer ... 'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  , which ends with To be or not the choice seems clear enough but Hamlet ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier ... the form but don’t know how to find it, please email [email protected] from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie, sometimes it's hard to remember (not because the moments are painful, just ... entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011