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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... haven't admitted anyone off the waitlist the past three years. What's up ... for large numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae without ending up with my food on my face. It's almost been a decade since ... ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... , so it's Wednesday, I just printed out my 9.15 paper, and I'm done for ... department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special ... honor of Douglas Adams reads, "So long and thanks for all the wit," hung ... ," is signed "Rebel Scum." A dozen donuts were also left at the scene for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was ... file. Before that, I've been catching up on email and phone calls. This morning we had our weekly staff meeting, a good chance for all admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that ... representative for SAAS(South Asian Association of Students), a member of the Mech ... Jenny> Don't Look Up by Adam McKay Nora> also Don’t Look Up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... bottling up was grief. Grief for all the time he's lost: time that he could ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem ... holing up at my desk for just one more hour, then another, trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . that i make time for like 6 hours of DnD every week. that i've taken up ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... time but not pick up many new skills, since I already had experience with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  up for the quilt, but that night was a really great memory and belongs ... , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly ... started slowly packing up my room again in November. At this point, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  excited about Riri because she opened up the spectrum of imagination--for ... sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... and making screens light up like magic. Then I started to realize that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  , comes up to me as I'm headed back to the tent for debrief, comes up to me ... . Unfortunately, I've picked up a new hobby that makes that second rule a little ... (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  wait up for me. The bar had a catered event with free pizza, and it was a ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018