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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted ... the transfer students we are able to admit. And of course, like in our ... admissions process. She has done a great job in helping many students with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your ... time and energy to academics and social life. Overall, it’s a great

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... free to get funky with this one and try reading your essay in Broadway ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we want, moving slowly from the steps in front of the Great Dome over to the ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... carbon atoms in ways that cause atom groups to change places. This happens ... compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... initiative and courage to get help, and appreciate it. In an e-mail I received ... want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ...  need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you ... this happens, you tend to bottle yourself in and hide away in your room

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  directions on how to remove the cables. The memo, addressed to "Imperial Drones ... went to great pains to protect the dome. The material is very light and ... Pixar friend majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... internal hoops. In an effort to get the blogs up and running as quickly as ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as ... potential energy is lowest. This can be used to predict how far apart atoms

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way ... next to the window with the sun coming in, idolizing my new computer. I ... You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later. I will get around to introducing myself and Kentucky soon, so just ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  where I have traveled were great. In November I went to Cardiff, the ... joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD-PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  interested. Unless you go to MIT, in which case you don't know how to read. ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  almost certainly how you should get to campus! Or you could walk, or bike ... -use cluster of offices, housing, and retail. We had planned to open in summer ... [annotation note='The MIT Museum is scheduled to open in spring 2022.']new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018