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• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up ... term plans, including college. That's when I stumbled upon a web page about Course 11-6, Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science, and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... band stretched and released within their abdomens. That was powerful, to ... pleasing smile. These days, I see the term “beautiful” used quite often

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... math itself is a lot rockier, swinging between begrudging acceptance and ... 's understandable, since math is what you need to understand old systems and build new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  ; woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... , roughly fifteen other students and I meet with him for an hour

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  Well, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday afternoon, and I ... until yesterday morning, and even then I almost passed out a few times. As of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... , and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did it in 1975 ... along with Albert Chang, Colin Taylor and Joanne Shih. "I know they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... boring ones? Today's topic is housing, because it's raining out and housing ... stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  delights and troubles that life hands me. Yes, academic pressure is real, but ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... ’- another frank excuse. I was taking discrete math and fundamentals of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing ... that class starts 5 minutes later and ends 5 minutes earlier than its ... transportation around campus, and each has its own pros and cons and silly

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and ... ). And you know what I think about that now? I don’t. And what I regret ... began my essays early and ended editing them late. Why I inspected every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  and offer suggestions on how such efforts may benefit the long-term ... minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  And the road not taken looks real good now Time flies, messy as the mud ... just ride around And the road not taken looks real good now And it ... 24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when ... underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , practitioners, and students passionate about social enterprise. In our 17th year ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... planned with our winter coats. We would knock on her door and she would pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  , and I've already had about three outfit changes. Not only was today MIT ... around the world, students, parents, every day workers, and more gathered around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019