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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... flowers, in addition to the programs for the night. Food was catered from

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  't get to be Tim the Beaver, which cut me pretty deep. I haven't updated in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... ... Got to learn how to drive stick-shift: Got to stand next to some big

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... first rehearsal to load-in to the first tech to the last night. Just ask ... interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... colleges to reach out to students in larger numbers, in some cases bordering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... 've yet to apply, this will help you out. Go back in time to your earliest ... ; notice how your situation changed. Remember times in which you ran into

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  .031, elements of software construction, dubbed as how not to get fired in industry ... effort in getting me to commit. i knew that whichever one i picked, i would ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023