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• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you ... Our applicant pool for Early Action was really competitive, and ... anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action.  Also, remember that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions ... Admissions, the interview is an important part of the process. The interviews ... like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... and egg strusel fillings. Come get them fresh out of the oven ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it ... another. Through ALL OF IT. It’s selflessly supporting and shamelessly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I ... 2 hours. You really should try one. (That is me.) Dewey is the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi ... -related prizes. ----------- In honor of Pi Day, the UA Dining Committee invites

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  mathematical concepts as "puppies." "Alright, so then we factor this puppy and find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  though I dressed as a witch like 5 times between the ages of 3 and 8 ... Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I ... as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the distance from your high school studies
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ; 2:34 am: and of course nobody will tell me what the relative ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6 ... cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  ’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn ... friends in the middle of the night, and just do things spontaneously in ... abandon all of that and follow your gut. It’s probably not the case that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  else who did exactly this, and he had the time of his life.  I fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  sketchy liberal slums of UC Berkeley and the sprawling Spanish resort ... Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest ... offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... email in early December outlining the options available: You may use
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten ...  intergalactic radio broadcast. However, following the release of admissions decisions

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  then it's not to be missed! Oooh, you can also get a lot of Starbucks and ... had a lot of luck finding a UROP and submitting their funding forms ... Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  committees, and no one person has access to the reason (or set of reasons) why ... and Notes form. You'll use the FUN form to tell us your midyear grades ... honest, so is the number of RA applicants who are admitted. It's hard to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006