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• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  MIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to submit their reports has not yet arrived ... about this unless you are deferred from EA to RA. This form will not be ... at no disadvantage.) If your EC has not gotten back to you, but it has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  to sleep. i remembered how much i loved airports and hated flying. my ... . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... . i told a coworker that i don't know how to manage a work-life balance

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  just met, “No, that’s probably not going to work.” It was really cool standing back and letting them figure out how to work with each other though ... pretty sure that’s not the point. So what do I do? Tell them to go away

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  the ongoing challenges that we are trying to tackle is how to “summarize ... our own icon detector. The second is figuring out how to classify icons ... worker did not select image number 148 as relating to chocolate, we could

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... be present. She tells us to consider how our body feels before we

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  possible how awesome of a person you are", or "storytelling is not trying to ... "]forgot[/annotation] how hard this was until I had to go through it again. Writing is hard ... ."]friend[/annotation] what I'm thinking. Considering how much writing I've been doing, and to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention ... alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that that's something for every scientist to aspire to: as much as, if not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... 't reach that far, I don't have the momentum to get there, I'm not strong ... 're not going to see the point in trying to recover it. You're going to be

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  other fellow mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not ... informed the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the Class of ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not-cold-not ... process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... classes, and I’m still not where I’d like to be -- either academically or

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . Deferred students do not need to send us anything new other than the February ... , we have already informed 1,717 students that we will not be able to ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , and ended up not being a great user experience due to low ... in a second draft that I'm not entirely ready to call "done." As such ... reason it's not quite done yet—I'm hoping to spend more time working on the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... questions, it helps to understand how the computer/phone/smart fridge you ... "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ? Definitely not me - I decided to write this post right after I decided I wasn ... ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... reasons to accept/not accept sophomore standing (this Tech article goes over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... miraculin stays bound to our taste buds—fifteen to thirty minutes. The maximum

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  dorm and learned how fun it was to have friends living down the hall ... to focus on research in a way that was not possible as an undergrad (I ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We understand that some information you may choose to share with us is information
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  , not when we had to go pset. It was so refreshing to be able to fully focus on people and not worry about needing to go pset or make it to ... IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... makes me happy* with the people I like**, when and how I want to ... not ***with regard to precedent and norms Although it doesn’t fit well

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  it to me, I shrugged and thought, Sure, why not. There are certain ... 'm listening to the first episode again, passively interested and not yet ... wanted me to take care of her horses for a while. How do you go from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021