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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course < ... belonged to the previous owner of my MIT username (they’re recycled after we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ended up writing a blog about it all, though. This summer, I wanted to get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... makes it fun to do. So I don’t want to just know it all instantly

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  , the applicant. You should complete the Report as soon as possible after ... : While we ask for you to keep the grades column as pristine as possible ... text. For example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "B+ (Final

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends ... area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  figure out what its function was and how it matched to the Nano. I made ... how I wanted it to. I had all of these parts already, but usually there ... submit my PCB for shipping after working on it for three hours in lab one

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  timely during peak periods, so even if something seemed to update after "it was too late" it likely got to us in time. Is there really any hope of ... have access to it. Does this mean that MIT will never release decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... [/annotation] this semester? It truly is the best place to live on campus.) Edit: My ... dorm. Well, maybe not quite perfection. After all, Simmons isn’t a cat

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... to bring the site back up as soon as we possibly can, and the deadline ... 's Wallace?) commented after my last post about not being able to fit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  finally able to vote, it felt like a huge milestone! - Beta Inside: from 6 ... 've ever been to, and after my head sort of hurt; it was like eight Sams ... It doesn't take long being on MIT's campus to notice all the laptop

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  with 81 cards, sets of 3, and more insanity. It also happens to be ... ? (...) As it turns out, this was a surprisingly difficult question to answer ... to manually check all possible boards: there are over 7x10^13 possible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  peeking my head back to see who it was. At one point I thought it was Liz ... , but I think everyone is guilty of this and it peeves me to no end. Why ... freeze a hilarious way to enter the events of tomorrow. [carousel image1

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self ... taken, just fake it to make it.  I’ve heard people say -- usually to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester or after completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  was possible, was it truly a choice?" make certain to reiterate that ... hard it is to write good blog posts. Thankfully, you don't actually have ... whatever topic is easiest to talk about, then compare it to the topic of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  feeling dreadful that I would have to wait another 2 months, and treated it ... it was I wanted out of college, taught me to be able to see myself ... though you were waiting to see whether MIT would give you a chance. It felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I ... . (Right) Then, it didn't.When we got there, we had a variety of paths to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past ... spent. That after this streak of work, I’m going to crash. You hate your ... friends, I keep acquainted. It’s not that I try to lose friends, but it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020