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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  letting us know how much you love MIT, and we thank you for your patience ... waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still ... waitlist this year. This is the first time in the last seven years that we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... kindergarten, in that "everyone is a potential friend and everything is a friend ... finished eating. I didn't think much of the half hour until a few weeks

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown ... . Spooky how fast time is flying by. I'm at this point where I don't want it ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A ... is signal from sources a) here on Earth, that interfere with what ... telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... manages what is essentially a small army of a few hundred volunteers. These ... outreach is by the raw number of applicants, even if it isn't a good metric

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  , as you might expect), is a fast-food chicken restaurant that's about a ... in Europe. 1. Traveling in a group of exactly 5 people on the Bahn is ... . There's a cheap "eiscafe" pretty much every block, and at any given time I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... from home, living in Boston and at MIT, is so much an expansion of my ... way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  , living with a host’s dorm community, eating way too much free food, talking ... is as much art as it is computer science, since it says something about ... text is saying about the human artwork — perhaps art as a function of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... EducationUSA (EdUSA) office in American Corner. EdUSA is a U.S. Department of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. But kid me didn't worry too much about ... wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on too many activities This one is a hard one because, of course all ... or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of ... ”. Hindsight is always 20/20, and at a place like MIT, it’s hard to think clearly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  …God is a genius. He knew how this would play out. He knows the power of ...   I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... one, all this course 6 stuff is making me realize just how important

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... , Vassar St. is not a highway. It's barely an alley. You just called it a highway because you almost got hit by a car. I also like how you arbitrarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... bunch of papers in a short period of time is just an intimidatingly large ... roofdeck crew with 89/115 pages read. This is maybe a strange definition

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  what? Not everyone in the population is a drug dealer. So tell the story ... as a guest professor here, and is now a good friend and mentor to me) recently and we talked about writing and how to make a living at it. I think

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and is the third of its kind. Its main focus is to see how children ... ou?", or "How old are you?", but since my French is pretty lacking I ... is seen as a status symbol here, and even though everyone speaks Creole

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... cheesy goofball that I am and walk to class.   *(fantabulous is not a ... a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  MIT read Slashdot too?" Of course =) Akash wrote, "How is [Biological ... application (is that called a supplement?) to admissions@MIT almost one and a half week ago. However, i havent got a reply yet. How can i find out if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005