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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  MIT, you should stay in contact with us. I'd recommend an email, a ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . “You have no idea,” he told me, “how often I asked [insert Math Major ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... time to tag people in memes anymore??? or to even look at memes??? i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  those who were not admitted, I know how hard you worked and I know how ... admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals at MIT. So much so that I am proud to say that many are more like

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  asked: How much time does a sport at MIT really take up? I'm sure you ... may have sent in one of those little response cards asking if I was interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  how specific the school is about their mascot, I either got a specific ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image ... birds, 2 uncategorized, and 1 bug represented in this tree. I wonder if

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in boston, but in the past few day i've missed an uber because i couldn't find ... are no trees and the sky is so big. i've lived in new england for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  concept. If I didn't play sports, I hope I would be in shape-- but competing ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT operated Wallace Observatory in Westford, MA. Once at the observatory, they studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  ...they're Artists in Residence. Each year, MIT brings exciting and ... Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  sister. This cat has no idea how much I missed her. Photo of Mansaf ... already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to start the second part of my summer in Cambridge. But before that, I need

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... , which is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I really like how Achebe ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I ... to these kinds of things, so we’ll see how long it lasts):  I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... crime in my young mind. 2004 - Ah - finally I remember something >

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... .” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  distinction.  There are, however, important qualitative considerations in how we ... ."  Instead, I have to hope that making you aware of our interest in the water ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M.I ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007