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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  the waitlist for your time and patience during this process. Congrats to ... For the sixth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job

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

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  a class that looked equally amused and horrified. Let’s roll back a ... the project had been rejected, and we needed to come up with a new idea and a new presentation, in time for class. Hell broke loose for our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  games for fun - and now there's a non-trivial chance that I might make ... early and took a gap semester in Japan my senior year. I also studied for ... story about your relationship with a musical instrument and how   that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... me, but MIT is a reach school for everyone and it’s difficult to ... of a college experience, and I was also intensely familiar with how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  checking the mail, but y'all are smart, so good for you. But by extension of ... . Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... . Today's The Ethicist column had a pretty ridiculous college admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to ... calculation for some pset. 6) A nearly lost calculator almost had a grown man ... freshmen) while she was at home over IAP, and for some reason our connection

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  don't have a standard type or model that we look for when reading them ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay ... risks + be truthful + be fearless + you are awesome! be yourself And with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  numbers 3, 12, 24, and 7 etc. (1732 points for already knowing the ... sample sentences). Maybe overwhelmed isn’t even the word I’m looking for here. Is there a word for being utterly thrilled, pleasantly surprised

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  Vuong because what I did with my one short beautiful life—was lose it on a ... 's quote "there is a vitality, a life force." I love this quote a lot and ... ) In 'Time is a Mother,' poet Ocean Vuong reflects on life, and time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  group chat, set up a when2meet for practice scheduling, and collated a ... lift face down and face up for group lift; sideways 3 ppl lift for ... doing synchro and skating as a team (literally, side by side with others

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  ! 18.125 is Measure Theory--it's a grad math course with a reputation for ... , followed by surveying subjects and distributing t-shirts. Look, a link ... ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a ... it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... recently released a new song!!! And we really like it!! It reminded us a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  had brought me a blanket from my room and some tea for the rest of the ... , and sometimes there really isn't a way to look at a situation that can ... and a tiramisu cake for breakfast the next day, and some cannolis for my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic ... chaos. As the zombies approached, David and I chugged out a window-shattering riff of sonorous death with a pounding rhythm. Our righteous metal threw

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  scholarship with a stipend! Woo! My high school offered 8 AP classes, and I ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  friends, and explore a new town with my podmates. Haymarket: self love is ... times to count. For the summer, I lived at tEp and it was a blast. In ... got to the bus stop and looked up a bus schedule to see that the next

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force.” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  requirements, with a single program and core courses which may or may not be ... that you see on the news. And if you’re a person who looks at current ... this is all just a thought experiment..") and then you then look to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016