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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  prior to my first acceptance in the literary world. Was it difficult ... Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  This weekend, I headed down to Washington, DC, for the Rally to ... , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat ... MIT well before 5:45pm. If you choose to ignore my advice, you will not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  "), we admitted 1611 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... "yield"), we admitted 1554 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... fish and seafood species are projected to collapse within my lifetime

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in ... power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  first. You'll get plenty of chances to do all sorts of neat things once ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... I went up to the White Big Rocks was way colder than the first. Soft ... this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  to them a lot during the hectic, unfamiliar first few weeks at MIT, and ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  1. Lamborghini recently brought this magnificent display to campus ... Strategy” award. (Poster next to car said: The cooperation between Automobili ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... maximum height (minus its initial height, the distance from the ground to ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  , and looking ahead to all of first semester is crazy intimidating. But so ... sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  Charities... Bayou Bash has two main charity goals: The first is to provide a ... good time to talk about application process flexibility. We know bad ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023