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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  first few post-decision weeks the sadness for rejected students outweighs the joy for admitted ones, that ratio soon reverses and becomes a landslide win for the joy, which sticks with you through the years (because

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... email the document if the fax option has repeatedly failed for you. Faxing the document is quicker and easier for you and for us. Additionally, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person ... soiree, all the food was gone EXCEPT FOR THE LEMON SQUARES.) Three of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... ...*shrug emoji*. I also wasn’t really motivated for the best reasons, I think the ... . Not asking more people for advice before making decisions Part of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , good for you. But the odds are very good that it won't work out as well ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  the marshmallow if you weren't looking for it, but with careful ... flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... statement may not be true: the more unusual ones are often only available for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  note="If you look hard enough on the Internet, you can actually find my ... auditioned for my choir's winter concert solo. I went out with friends to the ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her ... solutions that can help them, because for the first time, they actually have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  face paint. It was always untidy to me, the way it looked just icked me ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... registered for the 6 hour ground training.  A week later I found myself sitting ... .  You look up, recognize the malfunction, and then have to react

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  of the bears. I'll be brief, for the sake of wit. First, Ling '07 ... inscription "Made in England." For Mitra, here is the Iran bear. For Ruth ... Prep through ESP, here is the quite vibrant Georgia bear. For fans of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no ... item is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it ... The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I went to a World Cup Game!!!!⚽⚽ and why I think it's just like Pokemon

  

  Africa lost, but the experience cemented me as a SA supporter for the cup ... underdog, and so I rooted for Paraguay, and they won!!!! They went all the ... . The higher leagues would be for more experienced trainers that have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 2, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  to the increasing polarization of U.S. politics? Let’s look at the data ... ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), MIT hosted the inaugural "Taste of SHASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... . (Click here for a full listing of the arts-tagged CPW events.) Anyways

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  Expansion Director for LTI (pretty much the guy that facilitates LTI ... and service program for Boston-area high school students. The mentoring ... myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  community of people, as long as you have the courage to go looking for them ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA ... ;t get in, the tears came. Some would call me foolish for getting this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016