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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  possible to exactly predict how many students will attend this year. To help ... all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the

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

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  how we used to go on play-dates to restaurants in Harvard Square and ... DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... wanted to know how effective these measures had been - data he had yet to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

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

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... pictures in immaculate, non-smudgable Sharpie pen. And I had to include ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... time for BATMAN! I was supposed to get there at 10 but was about five ... . We headed to theater 12, showed our ticket stubs, and walked in. Not

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all ... ’ve seen enough smart people dedicate their lives to (in my opinion ... , but i think it does need to be specific enough to inform you in making

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ="Design Studio: How to Design."]4.021[/annotation] started to get work done for the ... per semester, leading to more than one wave of midterm weeks. how you ... ”s. As first semester finals came to a close in late December, I saw no

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... , but I’m pretty sure that I want to major in it. Computer science ... computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock ... . Additionally, they run a series of IAP classes, covering everything from how to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  get of the Tor, because they started the Fan Mile right in front of it. Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor ... we tried in broken German to explain that, no, we weren't trying to fit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -door “trained” friends. We also get a budget to organize events and workshops in ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  other to get in our petition forms, and it was exciting because it totally ... experience - you get stranded on this island in Massachusetts Bay, have these ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... documents to you via postal mail?No — it won't get here in time. I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square ... like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... in Chinatown, everything’s in traditional Chinese. Talks about how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019