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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... another college to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 reply ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni ... learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get ... for college or head east to Cambridge. Fortunately, over the years I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  sure that you get to eat while at MIT by hanging out with people who have ... as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most ... programs have had their own App developed by a participant, just to keep

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get ... New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... article about New Coke (a development that led a pregnant Sam's Mom to ... stretch for me to have gotten to the American Civil War from there. I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  to shop around for a new one. At first I was actually pretty worried ... Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... relaxed atmosphere. Oh, and you get academic credit for this, and the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... also planned for us and one of my favorites was our trip to the Boston

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting ... inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  example. But it may be getting easier for fall term cross registration ... 't checked because generally we're looking for it to come separately. I'd be ... few questions, including: "1. Any luck getting a guest blogger to speak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an ... of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  ’t want to fuck it up. also, my parents were coming from New Hampshire to ... then it was call time for Mocha Show again. i knew what to expect this ... love.    Monday: catch-up day…! due to my crazy dance schedule for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman ... War. Ok, that's about it for me. I look forward to sharing my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... 's the only way to keep from getting sad about some folks I really want

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  my lab, so I tend to get food truck pretty much every day. So, for this ... I relied So, that was my lunch for a month. I used to get Anna ... 've been trying to give up certain things and routines I take for granted so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  the Ben & Jerry's factory and got to sample a new mint fudge flavor ... . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lunch. I'm half-convinced that any minute now I'm going to get a call or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  software, so it’s all in-house, but by the time they get on to it the story ... wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or if it was something I really wanted to move to get to. I mean I loved

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... winning: "I didn't f--- this up!  Now I get to troll Politico ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another class (6.004—Computation Structures), and to Kresge for an info session ... (guided by the awesome sidewalk chalk designs) for some liquid nitrogen ice

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008