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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -900 applicants -- fewer than 5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... organizations like: LUChA (La Unión Chicana por Aztlán) MAES (Latinos in ... light at the Latino Cultural Center's annual Cena a la Seis during Family

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good ... finding an interesting and useful internship, and living in a place in which ... diverse job opportunities in a given field; understanding and seeking out

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Instead, I take a lecture course, hashing out the basics. Differences ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... philosophy, which says that all "educated" people should have a common

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been primered, but painted, a while ago, but I am a horrible and inexperienced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  goals for sophomore fall.   Do Laundry More Often  I had a ... it out afterwards, but I never did, because I had to do a problem set ... My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  Verdes, and why you are up at 2am doing a PSET when you could’ve not ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  I am an international student (although I do have a good profile ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... Carr wrote: "When reviewing applicants, obviously there is a certain

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... curriculum. While we know these tests are not perfect, they do provide an informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  concert  I went to a chamber music concert with Holden M. ’25. I do not ... probably not the best way to organize a to-do list. it works for me but I ... ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  basis. =p 8:10 Zach: Do we have a Mastering Physics assignment due today ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of well-being. Now the question is, which do I enjoy more, blogging or 18

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  bite of a spicy Italian sub, I would do anything - including trudging ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  be doing when we see a bar chart, and the effects of color on how we ... work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to ... do a distractor task where they had to remember a sequence of letters

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... [annotation note="While I do think MIT has its unique pressures, I don't think ... my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  the music, but would have to do a lot of gesticulating. We would ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... happened that eclipsed both stories. At this point, a post with all three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do ... pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it ... him a happy birthday because he is basically the greatest kid ever and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012