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• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal. The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... and over in my head like a broken record: "deferred is not rejected." It

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  For the sixth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... , but we do plan to admit 26 students from the waitlist. Today, around 3pm Eastern Daylight Time, we will notify the admitted students via email

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... condition should the laptop prohibition Ever be forgot.The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  either by courier mail or online? This is because the problem comes not ... letter is not any form of recommendation but just something which the Chief ... about your world. Do not fear the essay - it is your friend

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that ... will candidly admit - we may not be the most well-prepared when it comes ... historian should, even on-the-spot if necessary. Professor Maier is a master

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the ... , but just kind of maybe her). The fact that I am here is mindblowing ... . Amazingly, the lab gave me a third of a beautiful office (which so far is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  rejected applicant - I know that my feelings do not compare. But at the same ... that's not something I would say just for the sake of saying it. Don ... all of your decisions affect us, not just the happy ones. For what it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  websites that I check every day. They are, in no particular order, xkcd ... home for the summer, and his status updates had hinted . . . Yep. It

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards ... in the Science Times wondering who is "the next Einstein." Could it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This ... great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re ... , the time-dependent deformation that occurs in concrete when it is

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  ). International student status is solely determined by citizenship and not by geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  , and the Lady with Not So Much Money It's a really good movie. I had no ... People The Show That I Do Not Explain to People That Show About Actual ... [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  process is anything like picking stocks, so it's also not clear that the ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... Fall with all the colors of the rainbow. This is so they can remind you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  the first time. Blogging is being careful not to reveal how little I ... Recently Evan's mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... such a situation, the first reaction we might have is that of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  not, given the fact that it is one of the greatest science and ... we choose to uphold The areas that they feel the Admin has not held ... buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all ... get my picture taken to be even more authentic. My mother is not so happy, as it will be the first time in my life that I'm not home to help

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  . And not only is the food abundant, it's also delicious.   The ... 'll explain next week). Okay, so this week's HT@MIT is all about the Boston ... offers some of the best, what I've been told all my life is, Chinese food

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013