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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To ... order, they were: 1) to finish my first engineering project 2) to make

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... the window to my childhood bedroom usually meant little more than making ... “small town girl who’s trying to make it in the big city” is overused, but

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  to make them, or just perform a metabolic reduction on food. (Vegan ... dragon trying to make friends with a guy playing a harmonica? 22:47 - 23 ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  interests would make me a valuable addition to an undergraduate community ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about medical school: about the application process, about what makes a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... maintaining a journal without it feeling like a chore, it's best to just let

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  tried to make a sort of 3d "flower" of acrylic panel petals, but this was ... , featuring the infamous Y combinator, on top to make "Lambda: the Ultimate Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  of you to help make the world a better place. And I know you can ... 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

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... times. It’s too easy to forget, more than a year into the pandemic, that ... announced a “return to normal” next fall. I’m getting the second dose of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... 's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what ... realize that your schedules may look like this (click 'em to make them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on ... first introduced this topic, he claimed to have “a problem that had yet to ... thing I came to MIT to learn about! This has to do with Albatross, a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  misconception to make about MIT. As a school, we consist of some amazing, high ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... 're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... every night with a mid-afternoon nap to boot, but sometimes, I don ... awake with whom to have a deep, probing conversation about life, the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  'd make the trek out to Davis Square via the T (the Boston subway line). The ... . No harm done. A little after midnight I went to catch the last T home ... subway lines and a few major roads. "Hmm," I thought. "If I can get to Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... allegedy within biking distance, but I’m far too lazy to even purchase a bike ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... rejected from a lot of jobs, so I'm going to subtract 30% from that total ... wound up doing all the building and he didn't want to build a loft, lol

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half-baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every ... phone was at 3% battery. The man behind the counter moved to cut me a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024