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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... 've stuck with this so far, so I should probably give you my dad's story now. It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept QuestBridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of recommendation, but…
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an MIT application. We feel that the QuestBridge application provides enough information for us to evaluate students…
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  . My session was during mid-March, just after the campus was opened to ... laser cutter to print my job. It took a bit of time, and I remember that I ... experiences I had had so far in my MIT campus experience. 2 weeks later, I came

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... all these cool places, but I vowed that I would take some time during my ... dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  devote enough time to all my responsibilities without feeling hosed ... the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008. ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... MyMIT account and you will need to know your username and password

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. You ... process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  reading about your passions and achievements. I polled my colleagues about ... music I listen to). What're you eating/drinking? I have to start my ... have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I ... -res pics of campus and either my last memory before the pandemic or a notable memory there.  Kendall Square This view reminds me of my desperate runs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... undergraduate, and the other part came from me forgetting my password, but fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... my birthday. Then sophomore year I had 2 finals on my birthday. Junior year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

    I. With the fall semester complete, I could finally focus all my ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in my tiny room, what if? What if I pursued music instead, making beats

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6.0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and Flows) final exam. Virtual learning has been rough you guys. My body has

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020