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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... be funded for research at some of India's top institutions is quite an ... at the MITEs site, you can see a list of course options -- including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of (checks watch) right now, we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... :   chilling at a floor gathering eating Chilean snacks (courtesy of ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for ... , etc.). One even offered to take photos of us on top of Angels' Landing c ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... many fun ideas. You were pushing at the boundaries of what comics can do ... Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  built one pixel at a time on a 128x128 field of blocks at a remote ... project and a live map of the server, and email the moderator team at sipb ... outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... of the interview] Interviewer: [points at his French Fries] "Do you ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  keep intruding upon my blogging time. A big part of my next entry will ... 've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered ... of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  planned to take any of the many game related class offered through CMS. I ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... ; Suddenly, I started having headaches that wouldn't go away. At first I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  aforementioned cancellation of my Friday night plans, I set out at 11 PM for a 10 ... 't listed on any of the maps, so I looked at some postcards in a gift shop and ... "of." Now, the rent-a-cops there didn't seem too imposing, and at that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  career fair was kind of like being the twelve-year-old at your big brother's birthday party. You're kind of cute and everyone smiles at you and gives you ... be too. So, to wrap it up, a summary of the career fair. At the cost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the ... frustrated, failing everything, and can't see the light at the end of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing ... attaining his PhD, Peter began working at MIT in 1984 in a number of different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025