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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  sick on a long weekend, so I had quite a long time to rest and recover ... abscess on a weekend too, which allowed me to attend all my lectures this ... right, mom. Getting sick really does suck.) To end on a positive note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  something to report. If you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... the best place for any new updates you want us to know about. Remember ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise. How do I

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  ! Even if you have no new grades to report, you should still complete the ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... best place for any new updates you want us to know about. Remember, the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  ! Even if you have no new grades to report, you should still complete the ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... for any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  great about being a Bomber. Being able to feel at home anywhere on the ... friends on Burton Third is a reminder of how lucky I am to live with such a ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ON BIRTHRIGH IT WAS SO GREAT!!  Birthright is a free trip to Israel for ... back in New York, and this is definitely a new experience being on a new ... new home for myself that I never want to leave. Anyways, enough about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... didn't need to be "sold" on MIT any longer. Compared to the penetration ... things we'd talk about until the wee hours of the night ... yes, even on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative ... willingness to handle failure Hands-on creativity Intensity, curiosity, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to ... to the rescue. You see, this summer, my sister threw her phone off a ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  landscaped NW buildings that no one really ever visits on a whim. Living in EC back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... to enjoy the summer's day's walks to the NW buildings, today, this new

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  remember to leave Adam a shopping list, so he could go to the store on his ... away from a new therapy. As long as it's related to the workings of ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  , except today in addition to all that I was excited about a shiny new CCD ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  a river or going out to eat or watching a new movie or reading a new ... On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... 10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD ... partnered to give a joint information session on both of our institutions. I ... the sunset. I'll always be a New Englander to my cold, frozen core, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014