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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at ... admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We colleges recognize and ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  , economic downturn, and cataclysmic natural event (including the extinction of ... scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... recounted the history of the millennia-old controversy and officially opened

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  over the speaker, it's like... our brains, flying out of our heads and ... . They brought vortex-like winds and tumults of snow to the courts and ... nature and applications in the field of cancer research. Methods and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  only be refilled by the housemaster between the hours of 7:30 AM and 4 ... policeman in Guys and Dolls, I was able to disguise the anachronism of my hair ... Trapp in The Sound of Music, and, try as I might, I could not convince the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  calculated using two factors: (1) your selection of 5 integers and (2) the ... clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... of 11, 20, and 69 points fit the characteristic profile for a top

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  helped substantially raise the registration and voting rate of MIT students ... experiment, as they both observe and participate in the quadrennial process of ... other and the world we inhabit together.  As first-years, they join (even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  a week, we presented rough drafts of the first five letters of our ... the piece, and a return to the center of the box at each "space" in our names. meaning, we'd start at the center, return after our first name, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  acapella group, a sorority, MIT Symphony Orchestra, and join the exec of your ... dedicate the rest of my time to my jobs, like blogging, panels, tours, and ... opinions of the different people and living groups MIT has. This was a pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  did, but because of the behavior of admissions officers and parents ... might not be enough. And she has a point. "This is sort of the peak of ... college bound students and they are carrying the enormous expectations of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... . It’s so on the nose, so cliche. You abandon all of it and start over ... heaven. BUT you grew up Catholic, and you know that a lot of the memories

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

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the ... Center, where my first class of the day is. Inside the Stata Center Down the steps to my classroom Made it to my first class of the day, 8

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... have rainbow lights down the middle section of our hall, and under these

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  opportunity to continue playing the sport I love and I’ve even met some of my ... have grown so much as a unit over the past couple of months, and it ... from my house in Boston to campus for my first class of the day. At 10 AM

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  live in the suburbs of Boston, and they came into Cambridge last weekend ... Eventually, the Boston Rudolphs caught up with me, and I took them on a tour of ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  -bending property of spacetime, and try to catch at least some sense of what the ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... class per semester for the rest of my time at MIT and still fulfill all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  your whole butt off. So a few of my friends and I went camping and only ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... rental car. The park was indeed beautiful and we had a lovely time going on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Random Hall and into pika on Monday. The purest of all unimportant joys ... the sad, sweet, soul-searching-and-room-searching process of moving out ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  amazing, and CPW was the first time that I pulled a non-academic, non ... first time that I have ever tried liquid nitrogen ice cream – and the ... professors, and pick the brains of really friendly students about my random

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post ... , and into the tunnels. She seemed pretty happy when she left: (L

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009