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  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No ... students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the wait list ... over our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No ... students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the waitlist ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  idea that the fish in my bucket are the ones I want, and I can't get ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back ... in attendance. I was in the room with the entire admissions Illuminati

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... (because i is imaginary! Bada-bing). As you can see from the picture at the ... wastes time. (Some people do their homework in the lounge too... I've never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  in freshman year. I had learned how much commitment was “too much,” so ... a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians ... icing on a cake. It looked nothing short of inviting. (Had I known how ...  Breakfast Tour in Boston this week, if I have the time - but I think I missed out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... married. I got a dog. I moved, once, and now I've lived in the same apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  ) stay in New York so that you can update Congress on the situation, c) find safe places from which you can access the Internet in order to send ... during this whole process, in order to show your constituents how calm you

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  playlists. The idea was an instantaneous success. I didn't even live in his ... underneath the speaker on the right. Because sometimes, in between learning how ... successful, he just ends up in another maze. I spent much of 10th grade history

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  I got a postdoc here at MIT in physics education research,” he said ... like any other student, MIT students can struggle in physics classes too ... went on to ask how they had felt the teaching of Physics has changed in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT ... what it all means!) But in many ways, I’m really not your “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... worried that your choice of major might affect how you can pursue international development, rest assured that no matter what you major in, you can

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of ... by taking a practice test, then slowly hone in on the topics I really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  because I got denied at MIT." I can't tell you how ridiculous that is. I ... commentary." "How is that possible? There must be something in there! I got ... weird coupling, I know. When I was in business school I had an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs ... passing security, but I'm afraid I might burst in the process. (Talk about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real ... noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... Sondrio   Day 19: Final day, and I can confirm that time flies. My

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of ... -sharing because I'm the only person who knows everyone in the room. So my strategy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year. For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right ... officially a member of the RA pool. Should I send in extra materials? You

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013