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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for the Ivies is as fierce as ever, but kids who look beyond the famous ... focused on the wrong things. Being the daughter of two architects, I looked

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  to look for another student like them? If we go to the waitlist, we ... . What has the waitlist looked like, historically? Last year we admitted 35 ... look. Over the past few years, the "waitlist admit rate" has range from 0

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... feel sad. It's okay.   If you feel alone, look at the people ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  generally enjoyed each others' company. Before the buses left for the dock you ... time. We arrived at the dock and waited around for a bit before actually ... night. Next, for the group shot, the obligatory handing out of cameras

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Hall looks when it is not so yucky outside. Here's the beautiful ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  backburner until i have to actually have to make the decision, waiting for more ... , i ignore the things i'm waiting for more info about, like decisions i ... yet, like news. so to the applicants who are waiting for decision day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  for this awesome Halloween costume. Look familiar? ... So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  with the big front wheel? They provided hours of fun for us when we were ... adults. The rules were simple: Modify a Big Wheel for racing using all of ... Prototyping Lab, they do all of the 3D printing for the model shop) and formed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to Concourse in that what they look at is an intersection, the ... to Marianne '15 for clarifying)) but rather Computer Science and the workings of the Media Lab through seminars and preparation for UROPs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... ’re in class. Don’t cook the meat for too long or it will become tough ... squash halves with aluminum foil. Cook the squash for about 50 minutes; the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  explained the "casing the joint" means "looking around for things to steal ... won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004. Outside his door hangs a red ... Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  the midsection, and makes you look like a bottom-heavy roly-poly. (I ... , you’re actually looking through Tim’s mouth. Before putting on the ... making my way over to the venue, Tim was ready for his moment to shine! I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  all officially undeclared until the end of the year. Freshmen have a ... advisors. Double the fun for everyone -- and double the number of people who ... plans for the term and during the week before Drop Date to discuss how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  from the waitlist. So, it's hard to know how this year will look. Over ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for ... to 0, they sprinted back to the sidewalk, waited for traffic to stop ... cloistered like the world's most shabbily dressed monk for so long reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  me souviens. We needed lemons for the greatest marinade this side of ... from the lemon grove in nearby Cannes. La vie en bowls. (For those who ... les fraises et les pommes for what was to become the greatest fruit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  end for the PLAYsentations. It was incredibly wonderful. Looking ... , thanks for one the most unforgettable experiences of my freshman year! ... that I was taking 2.00b: Toy Product Design this past semester. Over the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of ... In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally ... (pronounced Mara) from across the hall over for dinner. April put out the place

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  . "weird"? Except for Simmons, which is across the athletic field from the ... place for green space; its denizens instead enjoy the outdoors on their ... fringe of the academic buildings. I know that when I was first looking at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005