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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  the two testing options (SAT 1 or ACT, and 3 SAT IIs; or TOEFL and 2 SAT ... ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... hug them. Not sure if that last sentence was full of wisdom or just ... . He reached for her one last time. She thought to slap him as his hands

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... bad when a friend wants to say "hello" or if a heavy object is about to ... 'd been debating about buying an iPod Shuffle for a while just so I'd have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal arts graduate might call an artiste, or what reality might call "an ... predicting a 90.1% chance of an Obama victory beat the entire established

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , however you want to shake it, and nobody's going to care or judge you or ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... , except that there was a high school prom there or something, but that didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  (vegetarian) - appetizer/entree-like dishes that feature apples (and/or pear ... /entree-like dishes that feature apples (and/or pear) with meat ingredients Apple Abroad - dishes that incorporate apples (and/or pear) and originate from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  material are the same things that will convince a company like Microsoft or ... Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... detergent 3 rubber ducks More candy than a mildly aggressive trick-or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  . More Things to Do Before You Graduate: 1. Participate in Dorm Rush (or ... "), touristy ("Have your parents take you to the North End"), or non ... they're all part of the MIT experience. I realize that many people will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  b1ue and referred to themselves as "the [annotation note="Burton One ... while the not-so-musically-inclined prepare spring rolls. Or when I come ... closer to "chiller" or "tweaker."[annotation note="for any wondering, there

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  free barbecue going on somewhere on campus or saw somebody getting a ... break for about half an hour and there's no refrigerator or microwave in ... /baklava/soda combo for only $4. Plus, if you buy 7 sandwiches, you get the 8th free! It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  mundane; I give a summary of how the day went, jot down any thoughts or ... "]November 16th, 2018[/annotation] or [annotation note="I auditioned for acapella groups and played laser tag with Next House"]September 1st, 2019

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  to lab. You just do it. Or you put yourself in classes that will make ... -- Computer-Aided Manufacturing, or making the mill run automatically. A year ... II, without any practical CAM or CNC experience. I thought I was an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  congratulate or console. As I prepared to click the button, I was neither ... ! 1. Read even more about how amazing (possibly even perfect) you all are in the "snapshot statshot" Matt just made. 1. Get a slightly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  Regular Action decisions will be available online next week, on Thursday ... available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... will be no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  've grown up on the stations in MA; my presets are ordered such that 104.1 is ... ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some ... suspect one certain commenter will have something to say (cough cough Amy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... &M 2), 8.08 (Stat Mech 2), or 8.09 (Classical Mech 2) An advanced (beyond

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are ... explain yourself, either. There isn’t space or time for uncertainty. The ... creativity and passion. Don’t make it "persuasive" or "compare and contrast

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  online. Decisions will not be released via email or snail mail. Following ... Decisions will be released mid-December for Early Action and mid ... determined. Applicants will receive the email about a week prior to the release
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  extreme of two or more independent axes and criticized the one ... physics undergraduates, advice for grad schools, and, of course, addressed ... hotel, "meet people"), we spent a few hours more or less deciding on what

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  prosthetic devices. Have I done (or will I do) either of those two things by ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn't make it, but I'm sure with all the pictures everyone took that there will

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007