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• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... -- approximately 2.9% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  ’m starting to run out of ways to go on tangents for rather simple objects I ... ride. A ride on a street with a lot of potholes. Though I told myself I ... . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  habitual, like stopping for a cup of coffee on the way out, or grabbing your ... weaved around the vehicles. On the other side of the room, Melissa stood ... can of Budweiser on an adjacent wooden table, accepting the cup of water

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged ... a list of a few students who had emailed, and my name was on the list ... my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... registration between July 1st and July 30th. From HackMIT's website: "Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  campus. I found it at a bookshop I stopped by on my way home from a doctor ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite ... with it. I found the postcard itself in a box on the second floor of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores ... consider your highest score in each section, regardless of the date on which

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  some research you'll be able to develop a good list of match and reach ... college. For good information on financial aid, you can check out Daniel ... Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  on the status of Hurricane Ike. Every update it seems to become more ... flight out of the city when I'm supposed to leave on Monday? The prudent ... flight, so it's one of those that has one seat per row on one side, and two

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  intermediate stops along the way (in Mass., New Hampshire, and Maine). The ... throughout New England. Hop on board and see how to take some time off ... is quite fresh, nutritious, and made out of good things. :-) I grabbed

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... 's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30 ... the person they're making fun of. Man, he is ALL IN on Roblox, Skibbidi

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... pretty good job of machine-learning How To Human Correctly. I no longer ate ... because I had turned the wrong way, and the humiliation of failing in such

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats ... , The New York Times, U.S. Department of Energy… And 400 more. They come ... Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... definitely check out all of the opportunities listed on some of these web sites ... school), MIT does have 3 Pulitzer Prize winners on staff, and 3 of our 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... commented on my posts saying they're good, they're good, they're good. Yet the ... the other way around. That instead of the criticism making me feel bad

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  funsies. We make our way to the rack of safety glasses and put them on ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  binging Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Wicked and V for Vendetta analysis ... every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... , inspiration strikes and fast   and it feels like the blog manifests

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025