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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... . Someone on College Confidential had posted a link to a countdown timer

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... -- but I cry a little bit anyway when I mention it on the phone to my ... from sprinkles sticking straight out on the ball to white dots pressed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... could easily keep on as we've been keeping on for the last ten years into ... ) open comments was a kind of godsend for those who might want to get a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  really difficult for me because I had to be on camera for an hour and a ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... that I needed to get around 80% on the remaining three psets to pass. For

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... packs strapped to my face. Lovely. Since then, I've been on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to learn about current cancer ... Symphony Orchestra, and make time for the literary club. On Saturday I toured

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it ... for each side, and he said "yes, that's true" to both of them. He ... , and was just presenting it to Dumbledore for approval. "Write that," he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  winning science fairs, some spent them cow-tipping. Some like to sit on the ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all are united by a thirst for knowledge and an indefatigable work ethic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... up to and having to think for the first time about what the team would ... team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  10 things. Or 20. I'm working on that. Right now, I'm just hoping to be ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... , though, I think they complain about junior lab. It's best to come into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until ... can look into it for you, too. I've already been able to track down some ... give them a call to chat a bit about things... As for the food, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  they'd leave. I waited on some random sidewalk for another fifteen ... laughed. He was apologetic for taking so long to cut my hair, when it had ... ." On Monday I had an appointment with MIT Medical, to get the irregular

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  someone [annotation note="which, for the record, I am paid to do"]I write ... Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear ... a general handle on what was going to happen: we’d do a table read of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... ’re thinking “But Chris, why on Earth wouldn’t shirk my responsibilities? What do ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... to spend an hour on a single app. Sometimes that's just what it takes. Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for ... I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  on Tuesday, I turned 22. it wasn't nearly as blissful as turning 21 ... able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023