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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  encounters with people - be they future bosses or future lovers - who will ... Princeton 2012 Commencement. His address was entitled "Don't Eat Fortune ... try to always make the best decision, your life will later read back as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  you can click "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or ... your application past January 1, we will extend the deadline for you due ... student (foreign or domestic) who needs one. Using a fee waiver will not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  or 5.  It's been itneresting to boil my personal development down to 1 ... with a mug of tea contemplating how I've reached the point I'm at. If ... was then, nor did I know anything about urban planning or transportation

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  school, your first day of the application process begins. Day 1. You might ... school, helping to tutor struggling middle school students, or organizing a ... Chinese, we have a proverb that says "those who often contact cinnabar* will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ; who will pursue their own dreams.” Graduating college--or high school ... especially the first 4 or so) as wishing my Great Hunger would disappear, since ... ’t know what I wanted to write at first when Petey reached out for posts

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  ://youtube.com/shorts/9t1d0UjvEI0?feature=share [caption id="attachment_99886" align ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... Truck Guy, much to the chagrin of my wife Steph C ’15). [carousel image1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... will notify the admitted students, informing them that they have been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... somewhere several email addresses ago, but I do remember that Matt, who was ... short video addressing a hypothetical rural applicant from Beulah

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is ... , and was like: "1 class can't hurt, right?" So I signed up. I then saw

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  's Part 1, unmodified. The last sentence is particularly cute and naive ... confident than I felt. Or maybe Latin music just makes everyone look awesome ... brain was left with two conclusions: 1) In no way was this "ditching a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... , maybe these people don’t just absorb content faster or get through psets

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not ... summer, there is no studying (unless you’re taking the GRE or MCATs, in ... /internship/volunteering or on the weekends that we crusty upperclassmen who are so accustomed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  spells. Thank goodness: two in one day would just be embarrassing. Only 1.6 kg... Things I learned yesterday: (1) Sometimes passing out is not ... Anaikatti with a mobile medical van. Each time, we visit about five villages

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  ’re camouflaged in the skeletons of the bushes, snow mobiles circling like predators ... ’s Day was on a Saturday you could plausibly still celebrate it today (or ... announcements, and that there weren’t cards or candy, which is suboptimal. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  , printers, laser-cutters, and shiny Mac Pro computers. Monday afternoon would ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  colleges, or what life will be like after high school and college. Maybe this ... ” mean? Many, many things. does my research matter (or will it, once i ... 's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two When will you realize

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  irrational, dangerous, or perhaps even stupid) passion: Rock Climbing. See ... , and I'm buying shoes, filling my amazon wishlist with gear, and climbing ... dime-edge thick ledge or steady yourself with nothing more than a knuckle

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these ... into the House or the Senate, she says, you need to understand who these ... particular issues, to help him or her cast an informed vote. This sounds like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... , or times the [annotation note="computer vision ... projects for a half hour or so. Then my teammate had class, leaving me alone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024