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• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  like there is never enough exploring of Boston to be done, so be on the ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  to 17 out of the 408 students on our wait list. At this point, our wait ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  boulders out of the woods to make a 32' x 26' perimeter. On the Monday ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and had to have a craniotomy performed right on the ER floor, since the ... 't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... petitioned to form DreaMIT, an on-campus organization that would aim to bring

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  you have been checking the Application Tracking System on MyMIT, and may ... this mail, and hope to be completely caught up within the next few days ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that’s okay ... . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  to focus on symbols when the body wanted only to escape to bed. I began to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final ... (the same group that put on Suburbia last year). They were pretty good ... , Dramashop wasn't the only club putting on a show tonight - Dance Troupe, MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means ... advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we ... members of the Class of 2018. I'll be closing comments on this post to ... to welcome them to campus to join the 4,503 outstanding undergraduates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  't even think to think about. things like the one class i took on a whim ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the face of the atrocities that were occurring – atrocities to which

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  greatly helped. Actually, Lee was on his way to Harrisburg, which, as the ... happened to be reading the article about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006