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• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... schoolwork, I've had crazy amounts of free time recently. Not that I've really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... of APs you should take. If your school offers AP calculus, we hope you ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... Hey all! Time for another round of Q&A. A few general comments: 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle ... offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  If a QB applicant is admitted EA/RA, will they receive full financial aid?

  MIT practices need-blind admissions for all students, regardless of citizenship. If you're admitted through Early Action or Regular Action, MIT will assemble a financial aid offer that will meet 100% of your demonstrated need
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school. We understand that high schools have different offerings and families ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  , is about to graduate with a course 6 degree, numerous musical accolades ... ranges from jazz standards: To funky arrangements of other classic songs (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020