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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  not offer admission today, we have placed a small number on our waitlist ... . That your path isn't something MIT sets you on, it's something you make ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. I’m closing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  ;   We have posted more information on next steps for deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  summer. I even stuck a note on the door for myself and my roommate (who ... tasks and caught up on other things I've been meaning to get around to ... move next year (we move a lot), feeding the cat, catching up on books

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... . The basketball team had our first practice after break on the 27th, so ... completely on basketball, and have extra time to do all of the things I put off

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  . Allan: Wow, this is actually super apt. I literally just turned on Ghost ... r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  ’s also LITERALLY MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET AHHHH. Basically, it ... information by clicking on each node, such as your interactions with the given ... will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... this before on the application process here. This time, however, I wanted ... based on reputation alone. So, this AMA was about life, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  series and the experience of being on the TwT team, in the words of the Tea ... on open team positions at the bottom of the page. Everything written ... , focusing not on research, classes, or academic life, but who the professor is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... are linguisticsy, like chomsky or a book on acoustic analysis i ... several weeks ago, slowly adding to it by browsing bookstores on my birthday

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Food No Context blogging no context

  

  10:00AM bottle of soylent on the go for breakfast.   12:59PM free lunch after accidentally walking into a Joi Ito (Director of the MIT Media Lab) talk at the Martin Trust Center.   1:08PM our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  (where the doors are just buttons and switches on this circuit board

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application ... have anyways), and focus more on making sure your essays authentically

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  -aerospace-engineering-major-boyfriend-now-aerospace-engineer-husband has been a frequent character on the blogs for the past decade, so I ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build ... model of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and landing it on a mini-barge in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  may take on a full-time research project. But for a lot of students ... entrepreneurs. It’s a 2 ½ week long, full-time workshop that touches on everything ... on…which in some ways was the coolest part of the program. Prof

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever ... Linear Algebra, and, at the very last minute, added a Media Lab seminar on ... again (it’s becoming a theme). I also gave up on 24.09 and my political

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  effect on my health. Specifically, I was curious about fat, which I ... . Over the summer I read everything I could get my hands on about fat and ... if you like pizza (and salad (and salad on your pizza (and other carbs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... Transfer and Chocolate." One lovely October day, Jasmine and I hopped on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015