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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven ... 're happy to check receipt of items if you allow sufficient time for
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... the title, this part of my orientation period was my favorite and for good reason. During the summer before move-in, MIT opens applications for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that ... their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... , articulate what that means anymore. When I was 17, about to leave Arkansas for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  more serious about college, I tried searching for answers on my own. My ... college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a little over a month and attended classes for three weeks, but here are a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently ... , then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  seconds ago and recognizing people I follow on Instagram only for them to ... , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of ... which, while certainly not always accurate, I refuse to actually name for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  Philly. It was called AWP, which stands for the Association of Writers & ... .  Apparently the UA Committee funds travel grants for MIT students to attend ... hat and [annotation note = "the hat was too small for me and kept

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the ... complete psets and exams remotely. They were also super fun for drawing on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for admitted high school seniors. He stayed with me for one night before crashing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  this post I'm going to focus mostly on the spread that I directed for ... : Nina R. '23[/caption] The theme for issue 9 was "chaos." As usual, we ... knew I definitely wanted to do a spread for Issue 9, and specifically a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... MIT for the rest of my high school career because I so desperately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  feel like I'm being organized, at least for my sanity" [annotation note ... your computer do it for you. Starting from the app I picked up right ... out, eating healthy, and sleeping. I stalked the internet for a good

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers ... formulas (for example, to determine the optimal size of government). For 17

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace ... progress, creates a ceiling of satisfaction for working women that they can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... late night lab work for one of my last final projects. But we aren't here ... ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... as some incarnation of death (?). I have no idea. But hooray for ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over ... for the existence of God, the evolution of ideas as time bypassed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... share my personal system for dealing with nerves; I do acknowledge that you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013