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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ended up right where I belonged. I'll never forget peopleТƒфs surprise ... Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  to present a total of 6 dishes for tasting and judgment. I was incensed ... 6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... bargeldlose wirtschaft for a quiz tomorrow for which I am woefully unprepared

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... the night. When is a good time for it? I have yet to know. That project ... cities. Road signs from mysterious sources. An in-lounge made table. A web

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  !), but i guess its a welcome change from last years Sad Alt Music for 137 ... for Spotify to give me a glimpse once a year, so I use last.fm to track ... can't name a single Wavves song. I think that popped up because Twitter

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible ... study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is considered a semester at your institution, we will consider it a semester. We
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if ... the country where they study.
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we ... admitted from the waitlist. Financial aid will follow up shortly thereafter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  &reg. Please don't hate me! Anyway, I also realized it's been a while since I ... class for almost 60 years. And yes. HE'S FROM MISSOURI. (He was talking ... I... have not been blogging lately. It's too bad, right? Sorry folks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... something advertised on Dormspam Attend a sporting event for another University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  recognized for his achievements. "Because I asked," he remarks on having his ... Washington, D.C., in June for a presentation that might include meeting the ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those who aren't familiar with the i3 DVD, i3 stands for the Interactive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... , for context, we got really lucky with our supervisor. Finding a ... CSAIL who created a programming language specifically for simulation and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  reserved a room, and I'll get some delicious cannoli and Italian cookies from ... me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to ... 'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  just one reason why you were deferred. Usually, when I take a call from a ... it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... application into your other applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007