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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…

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer

  • 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.

  

  on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it

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

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... Engineers" on kazoo on the way down. The guy coming down from the fifth floor ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... . Unfortunately, this semester also turned out to be rather less exciting for me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... 's anywhere between three to eight of us there at a time. We then work on those ... have a specific question, and you're particularly motivated and want to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  exploration. Many on hall felt free and ready to mingle, and went out every week ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... even have a new mountain on campus that people climb with a fervor of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  Stop doing your homework, don’t worry about papers, don’t pay your bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there’s no point. This is goodbye, this is my last post. I know what you’re

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  if you are driving. I have been late to school on approximately 1 ... . Really ponder your experience. What does sneezing mean to you? Thank you ... I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Christian school, where she learned how to code (she was the only girl on the ... tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  , the problem isn't really with our flux capacitor (aren't you up on your ... everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  you can punt your 7.03 p-set all day to code a wiki for Burton 1, and ... sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them ... students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on ... , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... naturally i’d be attracted to the avatar metaphor on the other hand, i don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so ... a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be ... ethic. Oh, right. Well, what better way to spend your random 4-day ... comprehension came while we were on the beach, and a man came up to us and warned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not ... to read. I will, however, grace you with this: It takes up more ... who needs sleep when you're in an amazing musical?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006