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• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  admitted. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  accomplished than you. Of course, this is how I felt; I was a comparative media ... ) that fall.  That didn’t happen. Life got in the way. I joined the cheer ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I ... lengths and formats). A Statement of Purpose (this is the experience I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well.) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  can add a different dimension to the college experience that I knew ... morning, but I appreciate the fact that having the alarm keeps everyone in ... lots of wonderful things that have come from my time in the house. I did

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple ... answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been ... 't begin to tell you how that feels, after all this time. Maybe I'll have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... school), I was inspired to instead join a university community that had all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  to me is my fraternity. I came to MIT saying that joining a fraternity ... of ZBT. Funny how that works. I ended up joining a fraternity because I ... . Now that I'm a senior, I can do the same for the young'ns. Living with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that ... pset all by myself. Doing psets alone is torture. For me, anyway. I know some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... , I have heard that all history teaching is influenced by where you grow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In ... Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  literature and learn how I can meld my interests to do something that will make ... . Slowly, I realized that writing didn’t serve just as a cathartic outlet; it ... completely obsolete in the media. In my opinion, this essay doesn't do a great

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... -ops"]collectives[/annotation], and it requires thinking about the humanities in a way that I've never really considered before. I'm in a group called CarePod, which is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  dropped it), but the best part is that there's a roughly 1.2:1 ratio of ... probability. Probability is really the foundation of a lot of analysis in EECS ... 's also a magician. Not kidding. His field of anthropological study is in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... internships i'm considering next summer is a 4-person company where the ceo

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  dimples in the Charles let me know that it was still raining. I ate a ... that that is quite literally what I am doing at MIT and what I have been ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

    I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... how powerful it is to you…but I think it’s amazing the way that that ... segments. That itself is unique. I don’t know how else to say it other than

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... I told her how much it meant to me to see women in the gaming space. I ... stunning in person I was shaken to my core. I also got a lot of photos just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023