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• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  into the hundreds of activities and announcements that line our hallways ... add research, books, art, etc to our archive of inventions. Down the ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... the interest of full disclosure, I will say that I chose MIT over Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  the offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... great. * By chance, one of the Protofrosh visited during a special 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... the instant we went virtual i’d have tried to make different kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... . You. All things for the greater glory of blogging. Fun fact No. 1: I ... .441 Biomaterials-Tissue Interactions. Fun fact No. 2: One of the professors of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... students accept our offer on May 1, and also a great deal of uncertainty

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering ... the privilege of serving as the Department Head for EECS. EECS is the

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... different that I’m going to tell it anyways. As part of the MIT PE requirement

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... recognition, so that’s where Sarah and Marie learned a lot of the basics of writing prompts and designing this kind of system. The first time they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  search for is information. Any information. It will tell you the GDP of any ... the history of that country's GDP. It can tell you about scales in music ... want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009