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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... allowance charge? Don't parents need to put money in an account for food or ... . AT MIT, if meal money goes unused for whatever reason, it goes back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... to another nearby hotel, but cover the cost to make up for the ... ) call, and let me know that they are shutting down for the weekend due to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  it was next to Massachusetts. That seemed to ring a bell for them. Now ... 'll always be grateful to Nashua for opening more doors for me than anybody ... , I'll always be grateful to Nashua for opening more doors for me than

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to ... treasure we had been searching for. 32-188! We weren’t so incompetent as to ... excited in his life. Second only to when he showed me his app for planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... various other events. They have a (FREE!) CD out that's available on their ... (Live)) . In addition to talking about MIT LMC, Kevin also gives his

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  proves that it is possible. And she does have time to go out for ice cream ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... semester is what I came to MIT for - to learn a bunch of really awesome ... of the place"]I REALLY wanted to work for[/annotation], and I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  undergraduates because it allows a chance for young students to get research under ... . Apparently MIT is a great place to go for water, shooting, ropes, and fencing ... Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  of people that show up to our events. For popular events (popular ... —it was a chance to take our noses off the grindstone for an afternoon ... , reservations were (understandably) very hard to come by. The only available time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  started to form their own mechanisms for deciding room assignments within ... students to stay in their assigned hall for their entire time at MIT. It also ... to Taji Manning '25 for creating these! Architectural Principles There

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper ... , we availed ourselves. Ten people set out for burgers on the #1 Bus in ... upstairs for a quick tour of his computing den, we headed back to Tetazoo

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  for me (even as I did not not consistently show up to, well, anything ... ’t even bothered to imagine. I even wrote for Technology Review, not once ... for a week, either to take the lead on my work or to sit back and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  so, for a few different reasons. One reason is to remember a ... available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers ... anybody who is legendary for his ability to "diagnose" an applicant, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... points for the way you tell us – we just want to know your context to ... fact that a student who used to work for our office graduated and now

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  current UROP supervisor, who all gave me suggestions for how to make the ... I figured I ought to make a friend. Me: Hello! I guess you're here for ... 'M GOING TO CRY") and read it before I could stop him. He laughed for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... interests and passions at MIT, and I'm so excited for everyone to see it in ... past and future to create better conditions for the present generation of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021