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• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  building in the United States I visited with 0-indexing for floors. "](which ... ) refers to several programs that offer students the opportunity to do ... had psyched myself out over nothing (well, to the degree that irrational

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  for grabs to a degree few still among the living have ever seen. And ... receiving their diplomas from President Reif and Provost Schmidt  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... offer insights to improve the social, cultural, and political impact of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 722 applicants ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X ... colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... ? For example, if someone from state X or major Y declines, are you likely ... offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X ... date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... that's why we're stuck with the house in this state." One prominent hole

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  Residents Number of US states represented: 46 90% African-American 9 ... & Puerto Rico 15% Midwest & Plains States 12% Southwest & ... Distance Traveled Cambridge MA Most Represented US State California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... . Is it very hard to find work with a physics degree? Also, do you kind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... I've spent the past four years at [state university] which have been ... the university she planned to attend. She thanked me and said she hoped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  I entered my research lab at Emory University I was very quickly ... of travels from Hong Kong to the States; I got to hear about my lab ... chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston's Northeastern University ... highly selective universities are now need blind, that wasn't always the ... other state, and more students from India than from Vermont, but in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  Melissa offered him with gratitude. He took two sips and sputtered, “What if ... diploma—” “Gee thanks,” she said, rolling her eyes. “And well, you ... measured, but in this room—in the room that was now also the universe

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  pursue a DMD/PhD dual degree at Harvard. Looking back, I realized that ... . East meets West. Surgery meets cooking. When a Taiwanese silkie chicken

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a University of New Mexico Physics site, but I'm glad it is "Sonnet ... Voting Rights Act" "United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc." "United States v. Hansen" "Smith v. United States

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  our training came out to greet us, offered me water.  “No thank you,” I ... degrees so that I wouldn’t have to make eye contact when I couldn’t. I often ... takes three offers before someone takes the tea.” She realized what I

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  to ask it anyway. My school offers a class called Intel Science and ... experiments and things. Since the Intel class is offered to freshmans and I wasn ... MIT ever since they were little, and the letter also stated what each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  , featuring the dome![/caption] III. East Coast - Alex G One of the first things ... offer support shortly after the due date. As embarrassed as I initially ... my professor’s offer to have one-on-one office hours with him and a TA

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  United States, but do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask ... teacher and by no one else. If you attend school outside the United States ... . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009