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• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... the Facebook Group & Page: Facebook is a great place to meet your ... application is complete, you award letter will appear here. There is also a link

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

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... questions. First: no, you're not in trouble if your materials haven' ... . Why is it taking so long? We are processing documents from more than 10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  Gay Again (this is our unofficial official motto). Affiliated This is a club that is for LGBTQ+ folk in fraternities and Sororities! They host ... screening a couple episodes of One Day at a Time!! This is Queer West

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the ... defense r = a coefficient of random chance s = special teams Thus, how ... model, is a simplification: it doesn't truly describe the ability of, say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  for all three of them. This is in fact a theory we have actually assumed ... -defined, somewhat abstract, and entirely distracting. This is a more fleshed out ... while ago. So without further ado (keeping in mind that this is all very

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

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In ... The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  this term, which is a pretty normal load. Those of you that wanted a ... like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... 's also my advisor - in case you didn't believe the "you, too, can have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  differential geometry, "Gaussian curvature" is a quantity that describes how a ... Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to going to Cambridge, where there is a friendly rivalry between MIT and ... chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was killed in a plane crash

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  will be what the wolf in this song is - domesticated, and a thing of the ... 've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... becoming a memory. In one semester, I'll be thrown into the real world and my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  location) Here is a picture:  Once the froshlings arrived, who we referred ... reveal *everything* here. Instead, here is a hodge podge of photos from the ... art! p.s. if you think one of the counselors is photoshopped in, you are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue ... Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  a much more human way. (Frankly, email is just not very human ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... Friday night. That's how pika works. It was a hell of a semester--mostly in ... Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... 's some food in there we could use. It's a stretch, but maybe there's hope ... . 5PM. Courtyard. The feast inside is waiting. It might be a bit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  complain a lot about how ridiculously challenging MIT is, about how hosed we ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors ... in a reasonable amount of effort over the break. (Kind of like high

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... one day - maybe out in the street, at a conference, or perhaps on campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  I've been so busy.   It's 3:23 am and this is my free time. Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on ... to a motor and it reacts to a light sensor. So cute in fact, that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014