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• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... MIT's offer of admission, which is full of goodies about everything from

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

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... be offered a place at another great school. Waitlisted: In some ways ... of choices, first accepting an offer of admission elsewhere — which all

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We ... Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good ... point. There’s light and beauty at the end of the hallway ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  received other great offers of admissions from very good colleges. So you too ... As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER ... out the choice of major form and turned it in at the Student Services ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... can officially accept MIT's offer of admission (i.e. let us know they ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  Hidden Treasures At MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam Every Wednesday ... and a potential spot on the Boston Poetry Slam Team that will compete at ... campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... House, analyzing data, at all hours of the day and night. My partner is ... our data to calculate the mean life of muons at rest; basically, after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from ... from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at the ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

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

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  of grapes -- turns out they weren't even hers -- or realizing that at any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... at the top of our lungs and paint our nails. Our weeks start with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  , flailing at a never-ending torrent of projects like Lucy and Ethel at the ... amounts of sleep, trying to order a burrito at Anna's during the lunch rush ... . That philosophy has been a two-edged sword, but at the end of the day I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  classes, and some of you are probably curious about the classes offered at ... 'm doing a bad job at this regular updating thing. I promise that within the ... .05 (Biochemistry) Contributions of biochemistry toward an understanding of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006