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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  are not offering admission, then all I can remind you is that success is ... all worked out okay. I’m closing comments on this blog post to ... a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this ... those who learned this unhappy news today, I want to express my thanks for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  testing requirements here. I’m happy to announce our decision to ... thrive and succeed at MIT.   I took the subject tests. Can I submit ... means. And last, but certainly not least: I know we are making this

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

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  not offering admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is ... all worked out okay. I’m closing comments on this blog post to ... a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. I’m closing ... you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... we were careful. Thank you, all!   I'm excited that ... I'm pretty happy with it.  What does this mean for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might ... . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... grand opening and some debugging, I asked them some questions about how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning...but wait, there's more. Do you see what I see? Take a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  's the only one you will ever have. I believe in you. Good luck.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  powers for good.   Today, I'm attending Defiance, a conference ... watch the webcast here. I'm probably not going to formally liveblog the talk, but I'll link to one if it arises, and in the meantime, I'll update

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... !   --   P.S. I'm currently trying to crack the first puzzle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would like to share it with you. I'd also like to connect my experience to MIT academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in Cambridge, now, but I am sort of mad that the MIT Pirate's Certificate is a ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  you are, I wish you luck and happiness! Below our some cheerful holiday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  now here it is, as I found it at 3 AM Saturday morning, just 17 hours

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  you've noticed which I haven't, please let me know! Please note that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  who haven't said anything yet... If you were admitted to a college, I ... 't been granted extensions for financial aid reasons), I'm guessing most of ... the form. I know breaking up is hard to do, but not knowing is even

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014