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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  submitted. (A little historical data: over the past six years, the average ... 't just a "polite rejection." Your application will once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of ... recommendation; should I tell him to postmark it by Nov.1, or can he send it in ... application to MIT? Thanks for the help." 1. We will be interested in how you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space ... -formulated opinion articles, and no shortage of reporters willing to cover just about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  resulting data will be construed to corroborate the idea that something is ... group chats or Facebook groups, and I didn’t even know any other freshmen ... data concerning graduation rates indicated that only 60 percent of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  side of life. Still clinging to 6-3, time will tell which I choose or whether I double major or not.      5.111- Principles of Chemical Science ... sheet will get you nowhere. As someone who enrolled at MIT as a potential

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  first stepped into one. So I will address things that will undoubtedly pop ... move towards making something that can be used. I will be addressing ... entry cost could easily be $1 mil or more. This very much decreases the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken-or-the-egg thing with whether the word chanty or chantyman (person who leads the ... changed to be shanty by pop culture. When I say CHantey, I mean a historical

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  when I discuss this with people"]terror management theory[/annotation] or ... :15ish"]9-to-5[/annotation] or latent anxiety about applying to [annotation ... -unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a-picture, or more simply, pictures that feel a little... Off. Snow vs. Fence

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning)   This ... it because it will (eventually) contribute to my Chinese minor and also because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  , books, shows, or short stories, science fiction always gives me an ... of episode 1 is all you need to be hooked on. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QYV5GTz7c Stills: [carousel image1="117045" image2="117047" image3

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  term will do that to you. But hey, I'm DONE (sorta). I -- Apologies to ... then just bring/buy what you're most comfortable with. You by no means ... think about what it'd be like to have no cares or worries. As it is, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  presentations or software that will be presented to clients." Stanislav Nikolov ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software support systems for the class from scratch. Coming soon, the website will be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... .” It's the same problem with majors, or buildings, or the Pass/No Record

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  scheme and to each other: Maslab - Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory ... .470 - Web Programming Competition 6.570 - Mobile App Competition 6.S912 ... (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  what should i do now , i will have an EC available or i will not?" We ... was May 1, after all), but contact our office (or me) directly if you ... different levels of exposure (even at times little or none) to ECs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not ... reached out to us via email. Once you have reached out to our QuestBridge team, you will be asked to create an MIT application account and submit
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  's where point #1 comes in. All those upperclassmen with drills turned out to ... from making a dangerous (or uncomfortable) mistake. We spent maybe an ... might be imagining that this took us fifteen minutes or so... No. Let

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... extrapolation, I conclude that 8.07 will give me a new car before October.) -Film ... ! Will keep. -Intro to Comparative Media Studies: After an hour of lecture

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Course 17 - Political Science & Course 24-1 - Philosophy, with a minor ... read are from the past 1-7 years), some experiments have shown that ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017