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• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... a ring committee consisting of members from the classes of 1930, 1931

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Kravitz For all you anime fans, a Boston Globe article about the Anime Club ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3.091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to come back with a reality check: It was reported today that we received 2 ... a target on this number). We will go into committee about a week and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and ... group and two hours a week of a hands-on, cadet or midshipman ... each week and a required summer program at some point prior to graduating
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... everything happened. Sophia will discuss this from a puzzle team perspective

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my ... oscilloscopes and stuff,” he said after reading a bit closer, “That’s, um, still ... an oscilloscope as the display. https://youtu.be/9iHzG0J_maE A

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible experience. I like… genuinely love swimming so I’ve had so much fun being a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  MIT Admissions Bloggers! I started writing a very sentimental, highly ... the first day of classes, you become a freshman, but until then you are just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/7xU2HMnvRcLsGDOwcq7hQI?si=a110f5fbcd514711 “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d been talking about ... voila! Four-day festival tix! A friend of mine volunteered as well. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT ... ’t do anything along those lines last year—I didn’t send out a single cold

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica ... creative MIT students are, it's no surprise that the effort was a massive success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016