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• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  reputation on the line just to say that they accepted a specific type of person ... This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being ... mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  the students we admitted would choose to enroll somewhere else. That's a ... So... tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a ... me praying that the 6.1200 professors would not force me to write a mathematical proof for why the sky is blue and the Earth is round (Though that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... . Those are some of the happy things, and there will be more happy things to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... supplement are not), and there is no portfolio review to take art classes or be ... "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way ... Semyon is teaching it and he's a very kind little man who dances at the end ... for a DM to Emi, a frosh!, who had already completed the lab, and within

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we change the space with wicked lighting setups. So much is the same: our ... 've never had a room before that really feels like mine, because all the decor

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  the bottom right. We're planning to add in a few more buildings and then ... up and there are now many cooks in the kitchen (/positive). Here is the ... 're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... are ready!  In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... our automated system to reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  questions to pose. Being simultaneously an MIT student and a writer is ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... stuck on creating a story that would make the statements I wanted. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... quickly found that being a vegetarian during Bad Ideas Weekend is a bad idea ... Craigslist in the Boston-Cambridge area.  We found a toilet and a ceiling fan

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  out wrong…but I thought the cake was a lie…?) 3. There is nothing more ... to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups ... Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... : It's a hack! The Olympic Rings appeared today over Brigg's field, and ... Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Sense, a wearable for firefighters that can detect if a room is unsafe to ... : Rhino, a device for masons to help speed up, and clean up, the repair of ... :   and a recap of some fond memories from the class: 2.009 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston roads) is not necessary. And Boston is an exciting, historic city that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the ... translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  since there is no point of giving any money at all. That the dictators ... , and reserves a lecture for the economics of prostitution. The story is ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I, likely late to Building 9 for the fourth time that week and ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021