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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... serve as your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... trying to do Biochem Psets, to eating the Grill's pizza, notorious for it ... there was an immense diversity of people, some of whom were quite... for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  professor put up a transparency with a "script" for a college-age heterosexual ... 're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  opened up the floodgates of my hatred for those stupid HASS requirements ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... be required for my major." Mom: "So take 24.900, it fulfills all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  for people who are interested in scavenging for free food in random locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... foreign countries like Japan and China, so they end up taking those

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  all night, then crashed in bed. 12:15 PM -- I woke up, sort of got ... , including staining some neurons with antibodies and preparing for an ... . 6:00 PM -- Step aerobics PE class. 7:00 PM -- I cheered for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  for a second one, but they said no. I really like playing it up with my ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t tend to leave home for college. And just coming all the way to MIT from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  I'm not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly ... feel overwhelmingly passionless. If anything, my passion is searching for ... because I lack this internal drive for anything I could fill my day with. I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time. I had signed up because I was a silly little frosh who was signing up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... 's office gave up and took my forms anyway. 3.I've started taking notes in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  board voted to open up many more AP classes and now, to remain competitive ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  up there for CPW, I didn't seem to have service anywhere inside the ... memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... episode that hit hardest for me was this one: “Most people spend their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  comment sums up my expectations for the Secret Team and how I believe MIT ... VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022