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• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol ... 29-year-old, in the finals? Back in the day, Simon criticized 21-year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  registration drive held in the days leading up to the Massachusetts registration ... expressed interest but couldn’t wait in the long lines to our table. We didn ... even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... it was made from Legos and is referred to as the Space Waffle, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... have the opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from ... on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the ... Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  statistics? Is it easier to get in if I apply early? Last year, early action ... than 700 [CDS]. In the end, it is being a good fit & match with MIT that ... will give you credit changes year to year (this is set by the faculty and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their ... Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 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 ...  hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you're in the area for any of them and want to drop by!

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

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... went to Harvard Law (the latest MIT Careers Office statistics have MIT graduates with an admission rate to Harvard Law 1.5 times higher than the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  calendar to be released later in the summer. We look forward to seeing you! ... seniors) to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school ... .org. This trip to the Southwest follows closely after the three schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  . Dunstan in the East Church Garden).  I think there is a quiet resilience to ... altogether, the everlasting potential to bloom.  To bloom is to change. The ... or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration around here. This post is a photographic journey through the gingerbread ... for the blogs. Then it took me two years to write the post. Half of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer ... lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  really is no time like IAP for doing those things you never seem to find ... Athens (and what live-action roleplaying is) more in-depth later on. And ... with LeaderShape And, of course, blogging. Is there anything in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010