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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey ... ’s, and it sounded almost like the start of some rap song. Whatever it was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  had my seventh day of school. In many ways, med school is like going back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of ... MSSM Class of 2015, the age range is from 21 to 31, with the average age

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  shout out to both of you :D (kind of wish I could tag people.. argh ... Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... 's abundant supply of grease, memories definitely washed over me all around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns ... different kinds of music represented. The Chorallaries wow’d the crowd

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... of a harsh coughing noise) and "kamber" is really just a weird nickname

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... formed an unusally tight bond, joking around and making fun of their mentor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir ... 's show choir my junior year. I was captain of the largest color guard in the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... takes a semester off from teaching 5.03: Principles of Inorganic Chemistry ... term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period ... or whatever your dorm of choice has. And then, after that, there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and ... of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone ... HAPPENING!! anyway. i'm the director of blueprint, so i am a little busy, but i've asked some of my lovely team members to give updates and let you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025