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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address in mid ... 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 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  the field is completely different. I might have been in over my head ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... GEL to teach me the things I never would have learned at MIT otherwise

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... that the Institute Committee would approve as the Standard Technology

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for ... to kick our asses. But this year, I wasn’t sure what I would do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  . From the website (biographical links added by me): In Fall 2020, all MIT ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  watch them fizz, which I thought would go down in history as The Most ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... - '14 hopeful: My name is Ryan, I live in Prescott, Arizona, and I will ... . In the attached picture I am with my twin sister Smriti, also MIT Class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  of things in my life - how many extra-curriculars I was involved in ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... done. I am graduating in February. I will be spending the Spring semester at MIT but not taking any classes. How awesome is that? I know someone

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable, when the river and the skyline would fill my vision, and i would forget ... , i knew that i couldn’t. when that feeling would come, i’d turn around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... artificial things than organic things. this is how i got interested in ... fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how ... about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was ... also be FOMO—when I would hang out with people at night at my dorm, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  frustrated with how the whole day had gone, slept earlier than I usually would ... olympiad classes, but I use “swapped” here very loosely. I would still ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from ... head down for about 24 hours of total domination. In the past, when I ... , spectators at the Boston Garden reported seeing leprechauns in the rafters

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023