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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my ... I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA ... . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook ... . It was such a perfect start to my day; in this kind of weather, MIT ... the best version of myself I can be. [caption id

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  Regular Action decisions will be available online next week, on Thursday ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  and making flowers, so I squeezed a  on top of the cake instead. Then I ... dropped on a field from a helicopter. How cool is that? That’s the kind of ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger ... on Thursday, March 14, beginning at 6:28 PM ET.  When decisions

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... library for Course 14: Economics, Course 15: Sloan School of Management

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... . The nice lady said hello, commented on my rollerblades, stuck a needle in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... 've passed on pset- and exam- heavy classes in favor of those with huge end-of ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with ... REMARKS Susan Hockfield, President, MIT 9:20-9:50am OVERVIEW OF THE ENERGY ... - Science and policy of climate change * Leon R. Glicksman - Buildings * John

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... solar geeks are on this list I thought I should share… it’s a [Kp9] night tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on ... decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist. However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to Canada before. Therefore, we were quite surprised by some of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016