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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is ... round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is ... can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is ... I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding ... would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... large and the prices are very low.  Roxy’s A4CADE - This is definitely my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... -notch faculties, 500 HASS classes a year (as much as many liberal arts colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  ton of Team Fortress 2. As much I hate talking like this is absolute ... 's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... , if you haven't read my bio) is an agricultural state. I knew a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  -defined, somewhat abstract, and entirely distracting. This is a more fleshed out ... further facts, we will be unable to make a meaningful decision. Is this true ... the internal workings of) moral weightings. Secondly, there is a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... may already be here. All of you must know that being a student is pretty

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  today post Katrina. Much reconstruction work is still being done, and that ... around the city. New Orleans is such a conglomerate, a fusion of various ... , an area with a distinctly European feel. Live music is everywhere in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  : One thing this trip made me realize is how much I like doing outdoors-y things, and how little I actually do them during the course of a normal ... perfect (a few random bugs I really do not know how to fix) but making my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... Ben, do you know how much it will hurt me if I have a really bad grade ... it would make up for a lower CR score but I guess not. There is at

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how ... got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle ... Arcade. Also after much deliberation with this one, after getting a ... has shown me that 6-2/6-3 is a field I can enjoy and explore. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  due to it being a much larger class, which is compounded by our virtual ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a ... being in such a large atmosphere. Worries about how these classes could

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  entirely sure.[/visually_hidden] This is how MIT feels sometimes: a week is ... shorter, while the other is much taller, so you can imagine how lopsided my ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  recognizing this, everywhere, in my friends' goodness, how much of it there is ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... . (Photo Credit: Wikipedia) What this photo lacks is how the painting is ... it. In the center is a large Roman tile mosaic from around 115 AD of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  future, or people who time-travelled from a year before 2024: "Aura points" dictate how cool you are. You gain aura points when you do something cool ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  out sorbet (is there a lot of sorbet in Harry Potter?) Unfortunately ... know, it's a bold blog structural experiment, but just have some faith in ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005