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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... , and I'm hoping to finish my Q&A post in the next day or two. Until ... Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  comments and I'll do my best to answer them. Joan, I hope this helped. ... that you pursue things that interest and challenge you. These can be ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year's 10,466. Down the line, the statistics are nearly identical to last ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... respect and care with which we will treat your application during selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  , Daniel. Fortunately, we made it to the webcast in the nick of time, and ... I almost missed the Curiosity landing. My friend Daniel and I were ... Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  their various talents to MIT and share them with others, people who will ... afterwards a student -- we'll call her Artemis -- comes up to me and tells me ... , "What?!?!" I "ordered" Artemis to not take the Math SAT again, and instead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of ... , planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore, and I ... rise from Killian Court in my pajamas. I remember my soon-to-be-(and

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... see and talk to design consultants and tour a possible place I could see ... .97 during IAP of 2011. I am currently more and more involved with classes that

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear ... breakfasts. I should note that in addition to the west coast and midwest, MIT ... & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... Engineering just posted a short video about Glenn and his time and contributions to campus, which are highly visible even while his labor is not. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... Hockfield, her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey, playing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... , and some friends. You have been warned. Freakangels A beautifully-drawn dystopia set in post-apocalyptic England. Penny Arcade For, by, and about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... better, the nice library staff gave us cookies, coffee, and tea.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ...  English, and you can read it on the web here. Or, if you come to MIT, you can take 21L.489[J]: Interactive Narrative with Nick and learn how to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  ". translating from corporate to normal speak, it means the toilet is clogged and ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... they want to cancel and switch flights. nobody's having a good time, but

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange ... lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  at. And generally, the programs that I'm applying to accept around ... 't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to ... . Regardless, if you are on the waitlist and hope to be taken off of the waitlist ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I am presently inundated with email and related communications backlog; I will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  stick figures and Crayola crayons to communicate my daily adventures. I ... So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005