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• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and ... clarify the admissions process? Any questions you want to have an actual MIT ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... The February Updates & Notes Form (FUN) is required for Early
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first ... their education. Instruction takes place in a 14-room suite on the top floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today ... care to create the best possible team to climb the mountain that is ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or ... missing, if anything. Also: you guys are the first generation to truly

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives ... done around the world, and to promote role models for younger people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to ... This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to ... This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... The Inn at Harvard. They were really mean to us. Grrr

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  to admit anyone off the wait list this year. This is only the second time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  environmentally sustainable way. Check out their site to learn about all of the ... The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) was created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  you’d like to tell us about. Describe the world you come from ... didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation ... and activities this fall, and you may want to start thinking about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and ... Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... 't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  I live at Burton Conner (W51), at 410 Memorial Drive, along the Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  additional students from the waitlist this year. The decision not to admit any ... appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005