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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  you to some of my favorite board games. We can play Gizmos or Modern Art ... ’ll introduce you to some of my favorite board games. We can play Coup or ... or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... hours or so before Splash, and several hours on the day-of, which was ... reference, the undergraduate population of MIT is only 4,602, of which 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... efforts focus on a style of educational encounter which emphasizes the ... , abilities, preparation, and experience. The primary goal of the faculty is to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  responses of six students to four survey questions, which have been minimally ... opened my application around mid-summer, which is the start of first ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... believed in me. 7. Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school ... ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  founding CEO of HelmetHub, which he blogged about here. Here is a playlist ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  or i ran out of ideas or i hated my own work, which is how i knew i ... mental state was (and still is) the reserve of energy on which everything ... the binary label of “happy” or “sad”, or even to rate it on a one

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and ... –it’s kind of hard to see, but the carriage is moving up and down to vary the ... Infinite or Gala needed graphics made, I kind of just scrambled to put

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... gave to each of the signs above is applicable to ALL applicants ... their college transition. In order to prepare, I reached out to Crissy on

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  this is not one of those occasions. You know who I do bow down to? MY ... full spreadsheet is linked here, but to expand on/summarize it: I spent 41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  better idea of my overarching goals. Like I mentioned, I want to help people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... June, I’ve been put on six different projects. One of them is my intern ... of a road to learning something new is always bumpy. Learning Solid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  number of times mentioned, which is the number in parentheses.    ... physics calculations. Lots of teamwork and designing. Also get to go on ... Rico) to work on a project that would improve the quality of life in his

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  the first time), and I have a better grasp on the actual stakes of a ... amount of self-confidence[/caption] We should always strive to grow, right? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... to learn how to cook. Most of my time was spent on school ... mandatory meal plan. We have the reputation of being antisocial, which... is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  stipend (which, in the 2023-2024 school year, is about $4000/month before ... ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest ... answer is: it depends. In my year (class of 2023), many students decided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023