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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  so detached from the larger context of our universe. I hate the idea of ... I made this AI write college essays. Quotes None of these quotes are ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, both having to do with the ... lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have regular psets, but almost all of my classes have assigned reading! A week

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... computer, start watching an episode from the fifth season of Scrubs. Decide

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... be taking alot of electives since I need them for a graduation ... that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... kind of supplemental material that is very useful. I look forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  of my cosmology / astronomy / universe-related textbooks!" with "I call ... of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  buildings don't seem as elegant as some of the other universities I visited ... offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... based on reputation alone. So, this AMA was about life, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart-attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006