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• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  [annotation note="albeit, I applied regular decision, so the fight isn't over ... .[/annotation] But just as much as I remember the little confetti Tim's bedazzling my screen or receiving the famed and mysterious silver tube in the mail, I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  product manager position. At one point in the interview, they asked me, "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  *Please excuse the shoddy audio quality/audio balance throughout the post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... 's the deep dive into [annotation note="I feel like a South Park goth kid

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  because the positive things I want to write seem to take too much effort or energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a

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

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... about the future. they were the moments when i just knew, when my ... last semester when i felt this sense of clarity regarding the fact that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  talk about money all the time, in a spotless glass enclosure that overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... the right times. right now i store pointers and not data--need to move

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the office, I've already eaten paella and tortilla española, and I know the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the night in Madrid.) So that's the one paragraph summary, but after that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the ... 't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good ... all documents that were sent by the November 1 deadline, and are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  MIT application. We feel that the QuestBridge application provides ... the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still ... application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must fill out the entire MIT
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  wrote about four-dimensional worms.  Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021