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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. We will be maintaining the waitlist for another few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  My weekend It's been a somewhat busy two not-school days. Yesterday ... said, MITFCU offers a Visa with a $500 limit to any 18+ MIT freshman who ... schools have had. 3. Anonymous also asked, Does our advisor complete our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of ... degree specializing in Islamic architecture, research labs in experimental ... –and that it has, but it also has so much more. These corners of the school

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  business plan as if we were about to start a company. This involves ... wrote a business plan for a hypothetical startup called “Slate Design and ... peek. To summarize, we wrote a business plan detailing how we would start

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... of 2007, I'm getting a little tired of being in school right now. Not that this is MIT's fault--MIT is, of course, the greatest school that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... about the IAP Charm School (" Join special guests David Rogers and Jed ... degree, she also...became a beauty queen! And now, she's a happily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  -you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... specials and kosher foods, the hall is open for business for most hours of ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ap chem the spring of my junior year of high school. i had just ... struck me as a possible school. “well, when a school like THAT emails you ... school PR, so not bad! [carousel image1="111594" image2="111631" image3

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and ... August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three ... teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to offer free food. As a frugal freshman, you can use this to your ... school here. And picking up a Boston Symphony Orchestra college card (which ... offerings might surprise you. For example, while you're an MIT student, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Kemp -- and talked with him about it for a few minutes. He was busy, but ... class, he offered to schedule a meeting with me later in the week to ... to adjust my standards from what they'd been in high school. However

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  was way too absurdly busy in high school to work. I heard about the job ... and sleeping through an entire school day, unless you are exceptionally ... ). I interviewed with Morgan, and he offered me the job on the spot, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  for particular high schools, but at MIT we admit the best students, regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... admissions [read more: Bloomberg] The latest Harvard Business Review has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  and music. My major extracurricular activities in high school were ... . Another Sam asked if GPA was important for grad school, or if things like ... of wiggle room if you go to a school like MIT. For instance, I have a 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in ... that shit went down, made me feel like I was in high school all over ... of violence, not some petty high school falling out. But as my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... busy over this last year, brainstorming ways we could give rural students ... college. You can find this event, along with all our upcoming offerings, at

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Our school began to offer more AP classes and we jumped on the ... Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I really become an EMT?

  If the psets aren't keeping you busy enough you can become an EMT while at MIT!