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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  the optional essays are considered optional in that they are not ... factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... ; it just makes you competitive in the pool. Regarding the Writing test

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the 2026 i3 videos megapost see the dorms!

  

  MIT likes to be unique in many ways: majors are called courses ... -knit and well-defined community. Undergrads take part in [annotation note="Campus Preview Weekend in April for accepted students, and Residence Exploration

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 5, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Airport Problems, Three Years Later we all have different coping mechanisms for coming back to school

  

  ago. I am sitting on my mattress in [annotation note="my dorm ... . Unfortunately, this is not the first time I’ve ended up in a situation like this. In fact, it’s a very full circle moment for me: three years ago, I was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • August 30, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  . they organize dinners where they swipe in their friends one by one ... and cookies and ice cream and leave the boxes in the kitchen, to the ... . and so the semester comes to an end. snow falls, first in tentative

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  learning about all the different ways that people are using AI in today ... professionals in the US that took place from Monday, October 27th to Friday ... , we then picked up our tickets for our flight as everyone arrived in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat ... costumes soaked in sweat and tears and mostly rainwater. As wonderful as the ... the only one standing in the way of a dry and happy audience and the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in high school–the one who excelled in classes, or juggled impressive ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... the dungeon and fight the final boss in his airship. Then, the credits ... saw everyone else doing it, and then there was an email from Ceri in my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action, with decisions released

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... room. We had a fire alarm go off in[annotation note ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  -called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year ... 've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... ,[/annotation] a year ago in NYC at an "underground" cafe, which was sadly the last

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic ... in [annotation note="mit music and theater arts"]MTA musicals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... thread about the first AI model, Shudu, who often gets hired in place of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you ... hours a day, day in, day out. She was passionate about school. She had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022