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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... completely foreign to me. I have never assisted at a calving, had my artwork ... of you to help make the world a better place. And I know you can

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of ... required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian ... start to notice. I’ve also included a societal obligation box. These

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  . Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It ... generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture ... offense to the 10-250 chairs, they're a nice purple shade but they just aren

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  turned out even better! To make sure she wasn't confused for a gypsy or ... 't believe nobody has ever asked Paula Abdul to be a Bond girl. She would rock ... and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self ... . It's a battle of determination to see whose will is strongest. You

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  , I have a confession to make to my fellow VMars fans... ...Ready? I ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... for inspiration? Let me introduce you to a few really wonderful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  to Boston. A whirlwind trip, no doubt! Hopefully I'll see some of you ... Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... sounds, I was always used to being close to the top of my class. After a while, I intentionally strived to maintain that not because I felt a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a ... to read this blog entry that I wrote a number of years ago sharing some ... themself, including whether MIT is likely to be a good cultural fit.  The

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... the North End. Get this….there are shelves after shelves of different pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  totally awesome to write a blog entry that day and encourage people to watch ... . The advantage to the device is that it activates by just pushing the ... not to sign a contract to appear on MTV's The Real World: Boston (season

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of ... service, and so on April 21st I got up at a ridiculous hour to watch people ... life, from college students to grandparents to amputees to a woman who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical ... wrote to a friend (oversentimentally as always--that's me! No limit ... , threatening to bloom. A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005