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• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a nutshell, we're not going to be able to admit anyone from the waitlist this year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... , the right people. Not that I know anything about this. What? What note

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  about the students! Decisions are not yet final; the committee's ... message is, relax! College admissions is not the end of the world!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  that - but he wants to be able to prove this conjecture. "It's not easy to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  , guarantee admission? I think not. We admit people, not numbers or achievements.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  determine after analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  and also celebrate Sukkot (yes, I know I'm not Jewish, but not being

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a ... application. Supplemental items are not listed on the tracking site, but we
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  're very familiar with international school systems, including (but not ... not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of their
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  transportation stuff Public transportation in Boston is not as great as it is in ... : The T subway map is artistically rendered and does not actually reflect ... figured I'd be fine. Yeah, not so much. I ended up getting lost in Boston by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  I'm not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly ... not be what I was feeling earlier in the year, or even last year. This ... 'm not sure about engineering, but I'm less sure about everything else. I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell ... (actually outside not in my school gym) but the spirit of it was the same

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... 't reach that far, I don't have the momentum to get there, I'm not strong ... test. I'm not getting over this heartache. I'm not getting into that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this ... Jelly beans! This furniture store also holds an IMAX theater. I have not ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  mouth busy, not because you’re hungry but because you want to keep moving ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... someone’s name a default, automatic response to a question that’s not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  , and I've already had about three outfit changes. Not only was today MIT ... like I had already begun mourning for the future that is not what they ... 's hard not to be hopeful. At the rally, one of the speakers had said that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  . However, not everyone at MIT cares that much about Technology. Some people ... anything here as long as it does not disrupt this Massachusetts Institute ... minor in this department, but I'm not sure which of the classes I should

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... Institute Requirements (GIRs) that conventionally (but not necessarily ... students were required to learn not only math and science, but French and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  on the other hand, is not a rectangle (in fact it feels like the most un-rectanglulary shaped campus I have ever seen). It is also not a ... , acting like a responsible adult… (Technically though, I’m not actually an

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  and the latter turned into something like asthma that’s still not gone ... will not be getting pig flu, or bird flu, or people flu. (At least, not the flavors in the vaccination cocktail.)   Not to scale.  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011