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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  cream through a small hole in a jar into the LN2...) Halloween is this ... events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... random Bostonians. (Sorry the video is so shaky but hey, he told me to ... .  Amen to "Time enjoyed is not time wasted". -- While on the note of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ... Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... Massachusetts to Malaysia and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... you. But mostly, you were confusing July. Senior year is coming up ... you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• 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 / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  . There is a Frank Stella room-size installation in Building 7 on the 3rd ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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