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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…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... admitted from the waitlist. Financial aid will follow up shortly thereafter ... students, approximately 50, on the waitlist for another few weeks until we

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

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I figured that if I was trying to keep up with my "entry every other day" pace ... me!? Decisions on the 22nd?????????? Ok, time for the debunking to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... -10 page (it ended up being 8 pages) paper due in 17.405, which is Politics ... Continuous Random Variables. For all that, though...I felt a little bogged

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For ... campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... the MIT-France Program at an info session/reception For undergrads, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my ... , was compact enough to fit horizontally in my backpack when folded up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  , thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... 's Little Italy. So many folks turned up to watch the match that Hanover ... greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  "]Can't I just suck it up for two more weeks, take the final, and be done ... are still lonely, as my friend group meets up for 8.01 and 18.02 and I ... the first place. I try to make up for my lack of knowledge with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well ... try to pretend I am. I give up.) Since I don't have that much ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  thing. I naively thought that, at MIT, I could make up for my past by ... I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  because what’s happening is that they are just setting up for perfect clears ...   place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  what job I end up in. For me, it was a worthwhile use of the last few ... itself can get. For the time that I've been a blogger, I got to be ... people I looked up to while I was still trying to find footing as a fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go ... didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... officially set into motion a completely new life for myself - a new life that

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... conference covers everything from computational models for describing human ... lasted for six very intense days. Each day, there were two different poster

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... late night lab work for one of my last final projects. But we aren't here ... ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat, played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010