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  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... 't need to send us money to hold your place. If you're still on the fence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... many things, have many talents, and are focused on what is really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  tunnels of building 66 had a big influence on my decision to come to MIT. I ... the crosswalk on Mass Ave whereas the end of my day would be lobby 7 ... pictures of Killian on a snowy day for my photography class sophomore fall

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  outlet. It all began on the balcony of the McCormick's East Tower ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... ridiculous things outside of esolangs that can be done on computers ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  little skittish around them. On this particular day, one of the mice had ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have a pretty wide body of knowledge on high schools, towns, regions, etc ... knowledgeable on many types of schools, and your moves will be an important part ... disappointed that I don't have a list of funny essays on the top of my head... S

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  dorm East Campus and, more generally, the dorms on the east side of MIT ... 1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... Attack on Alison - alison"]Attack on Titan[/annotation] Do some data

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... gorgeous. I’ve been here before. None of the places I’ve walked so far are ... I’m actually living here, in the middle of it all, that I’m sleeping

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  ). Then there's that dizzying moment on the first day of classes where you ... back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or depending on the converstaion, it might be "Chris, what have YOU been doing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  and a walking encyclopedia of information on health and nutrition. We ... students are doing on behalf of developing countries. I thought about ... an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008