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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good ... point. There’s light and beauty at the end of the hallway ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will ... version of Facebook really helps). How did your time at MIT contribute to ... year here at MIT, I plan on taking advantage of MISTI-China's internship

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions at Harvard: "There are people who arrive at college out of gas," says William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard ... from Robin Mamlet, who, at the time, was Dean of Admissions at Stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... House, analyzing data, at all hours of the day and night. My partner is ... our data to calculate the mean life of muons at rest; basically, after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  of grapes -- turns out they weren't even hers -- or realizing that at any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... at the top of our lungs and paint our nails. Our weeks start with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  , flailing at a never-ending torrent of projects like Lucy and Ethel at the ... amounts of sleep, trying to order a burrito at Anna's during the lunch rush ... . That philosophy has been a two-edged sword, but at the end of the day I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... MIT's offer of admission, which is full of goodies about everything from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  coaster at East Campus, won a game of Scrabble, not done laundry, jumped on ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... at MIT, and it's clear that the insanely complex flavors of this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our

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

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  forms, a passport and a picture of my family that’s at least two years old ... better. Well I ate most of my meals either at Alpha Delta Phi or at the ... Outbreak. It was a year of racial tensions and deaths at the hand of Boko

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  's important in each dorm: the people. Some of the dorms at MIT are more ... somehow, I promise. There are lots of different kinds of people at MIT, as you undoubtably noticed at CPW. Hence, there are lots of different kinds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  University of Technology’s car can corner at 3 G’s of acceleration. There ... called one of the members of the FSAE team at UAS Konstanz. Despite having ... Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  talk to them. Make a scouting video of things you are really good at ... definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being a great decision for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  Ave shortly after, traveling southwest at a trajectory of 42.6 degrees ... as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of literature (at least, until the motion picture starring Johnny Depp as the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should ... students we will be able to admit to the Class of 2018. If you have any ... email to admissions [at] mit [dot] edu with your name and Application ID

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking ... experience and a Master's degree. (Me and Kat '09 at a Company Picnic) I ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008