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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... . However, I did not wear a duck tape tuxedo to my prom. Maybe I'll go to the ... selected the schools I applied to

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... are used day to day in the industry. I think the real point of MIT isn ... of those values when hung up day to day in the implementation details

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox ... ...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into ... home. Be proud of the tenacity it took to survive the winters of food ... , the food your parents cook, and you will keep wishing to be less—less of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  of you are still dealing with damage to your homes and schools and ... Nov. 1 EA deadline) because of these things, please take note of the ... because of delays caused by these events. We try to be as flexible as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  from four other businesses are talking to us about the uses of computers ... fun at all, the rest of the two days were great, and I hope to go back ...   January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  more classes of computer science jargon and decided to just make the leap ... every day, to hear all the tidbits of wisdom my classmates and professors ... become fans of things and the role of media in our day to day lives. CMS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  definitely by the end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with ... . Honestly. I'm glad to see from the comments that most of you, while ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... electrodynamics of moving bodies”, the paper that introduced special relativity to ... few parts of this lottery, such as the extent to which hiding it makes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  stopped to think about the meaning of each sentence i was reading. what does ... the rest of my life working on whatever i wanted to. of course, the ... cycle is one of the major impediments to deliberate personal change in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80 To check your decision on the 16th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... events that all happen to be occuring at the same time, usually not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... fun to see their evolution in one montage of clips:   What video ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017