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• Blog / About Decisions

  There Will Be Pi (Day)

  

  We have something to tell you - with a little help from the bloggers ... will receive a decision online, please visit https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php and enter your username and password. The verify page is available now

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  fact, theatre has helped me become a much more effective engineer. How ... actor is just as valuable during a technical presentation as an engineer ... motivations? How many hours are we going to rehearse each week? What is the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick ... is a breeding ground for weirdly poignant relationships with food. A ... separation from boxes of expired Life*. *A lucid metaphor for the fate of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant ... school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U.S. GPA system. Simply leave spaces blank if the information is not
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for ... 's a catchy name if I ever heard one. *Liquid nitrogen ice cream is one ... glucose, which is sweet in a non-metaphorical way, which is dependent on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  a box with the week’s harvest. Over the summer, Clover has a program ... . Tuesdays used to be a glorious time. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Gates lobby ... hours, but it never returned. I felt a brief glimmer of hope when I heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  typography jargon! A letter's terminal is where its stroke ends ... [annotation note="Strike two. A spur is a piece that extends from a curve ... reasonable names. A leg is a descending lower part."]leg,[/annotation] while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  is actually pretty cool, because we're learning and practicing a bunch ... be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... fully appreciate how utterly terrifying this is. June 5 is Commencement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman's a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... news. To be clear, this idea is different from the push to integrate a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  headed back to campus until Saturday, which is practically forever and a half away. Home is nice, and trust me, regardless of how much you people ... , Massachusetts (or wherever it is you guys end up), and home will take on a bit

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  pledges, the sidewalks were a maze of storage boxes and moving carts, and my ... . Apparently “Gravity is a failed theory that has been disproven”. Stay woke. Worked a ... weekend librarian duties, but fortunately shelving books is like riding a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  cardboard box under Harvard Bridge for two and a half months, I was offered a ... up a while back, which is really helpful and explains things better ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two ... the same as the activities fair minus a naked guy in a box. At the ... a tangent and say that I am very impressed with how MIT regards

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  science olympiad, etc., even though the applicant is from a region where ... . ------------------------------------- Mihaela wrote: "How bounding is one's choice about the department ... ; The difference between a 2100 and a 2250 is more significant than the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for registering for Campus Preview Weekend is tomorrow (Tuesday). I really hope you can make it! CPW registration is available from your MyMIT portal, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  , and with a much higher ceiling, is a little bit ruined by the constant ... tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... strangest moments of our trip to Italy. As a tourist, Venice is probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much ... how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013