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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  have placed a small number on our waitlist and informed the balance that ... threads for admitted, waitlisted, and not admitted students ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point ... that one of the bulls rebelled and broke the neck of a matador, but that's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal ... than willing to link to it if you send me an email with a link to your ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing ... .... (Also, hi! Yes, I'm alive - Sorry for my absence. Summer stories - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  themes of poverty, violence, and love, or 3) a catalogue of food I devoured ... Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun ... treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few ... center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  that everyone is an incredibly awkward ugly nerd with acne and backne and ... Ebbel didn't only grow up to be a professional scientist with an MIT degree, she also...became a beauty queen! And now, she's a happily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet ... and adorable. Her brother got adopted by a guy right before Kayla

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

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  fact that a student who used to work for our office graduated and now ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that ... my hometown during high school and had to run from a shootout (to be

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  a truly *unique* essay. So worry less about coming up with something ... new about you, then you've written a great response and the essay has ... get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. Here are a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  's) headspace for your essays. Here are a few tips, tricks, and aphorisms I ... , give it to a good friend, and ask them if it sounds like you; if it ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got ... job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly ... the large crowds Stand in long lines for your turn But this ain't Disney

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... the good, and a proportion lower than the social optimum will get the ... is no help, and I am not compensating others for this. If I had to pay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . We'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred ... As you know, we had a very competitive pool of applicants in Early, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Deferred A forum.

  

  We had a record number of Early Action applicants this year, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then ... 'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and ... and Samuelson. A third longtime faculty member, the late Professor Emeritus Modigliani, earned a Nobel "for his pioneering analyses of saving

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  hires UROPs and is a great place for a first research experience. Jenny ... gravity and used her as a test subject for many experiments. In the future ... nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome ... for many college students. Piled Higher and Deeper memorialized Ando in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  . Most users wanted to share things with their Friends like a status update ... 've run into a problem, and that is that Facebook broke the Share button ... then I went to the Facebook Share Wizard, and lo, it looks like this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010