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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book. * The movie is not shot on MIT campus at all. Most of the "in ... on the second floor of Building 4 and Sloan lecture halls. * Random

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  UROPs), to enjoy the multitude of craziness that goes on on campus (see ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  .03 (Ordinary Differential Equations): A bad grade on one of the midterms ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... massive amounts of studying yield minimal return in terms of performance on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn't accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... read some of their experiences here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... read some of their experiences here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel happy to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  of connection between us and nature.” - Patagonia, on alpine sports ... serious disease: Signs of Winter School addiction: (1) on Wednesdays at 11 ... funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  reading the profile of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT ... applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT homepage today. It ... admitting a small number of highly qualified applicants at a rate characteristic of our extremely selective process. Transfer students are some of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... of them are going on to college. Add to that an increase in the number ... process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia ... goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9 ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last semester, it was cancelled, so I was out of luck. So this term, since I knew

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... too. I won't divide you up into groups; after all, we're all part of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor. (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun ... The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... awesome monthly email newsletter that will keep you up to date on ... description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently ... (which was a playlist of her (which is also our) favorite Russian songs) on ... looks of distress or pain on our faces (like, yes, that’s very likely

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... on par with a Dalai Lama/Noam Chomsky kind of lecture. In case you don't know who Lil B is: he was featured on XXL's Top Freshman of the Year in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  on Sunday and immediately knew that this was a day of unusuality. The ... fallen asleep on a park bench by the side of the Charles River using ... great outdoors. Further checking of the pictures on my camera confirmed my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor of east campus: outside sounds, sink sounds, door sounds, my sounds use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017