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  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... . (and getting into politics with a stem degree is easier than ever, so ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know ... decision. Out of the 437 students on our wait list, 26 were offered admission. At that point, our wait list will close, and we will not be admitting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them ... ;closed” and will not admit any additional students this year for the Class of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  between the fruit-filled cookies known as Hamentashen and the fried potato ... after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen in Lobby 10. Event sponsored by MIT Hillel and supported by MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  world's leading IT media, research and exposition company") and philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  Following the old tradition... Go and change the world! Buena ... . Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture ... -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... ...emotionally, socially, academically; as a friend, as a student researcher, and as a human

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... life. Twelve minutes later, suitcase packed and shoes on the right feet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... correct about most things, and she’s correct about this: summer slips away ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  advanced math education and competition in the United States, which features ...  founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  see my comrades and I could sense that their resolve matched my own. A shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we ... fellow soldiers. The fighting lasted for 15 minutes and I grew soaked with

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  MIT account. Don’t forget to provide your name and MIT ID, stating clearly ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.) Your school/teachers may submit

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  of Student Life Benedict and Dean of Undergraduate Education Hastings, Distinguished Visitors (DV) for the event. Lieutenant Reyes and I picked up the Deans and drove them to Briggs field where the flight demonstrations were

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  , Kendall '07, and I got a picture in front of the very popular United States ... . Or you could just finish reading this picture entry and see the coolest ... some bizarre amalgamation of Austin Powers and John Lennon, and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  Center) and building 68 (Koch Institute) to locate every single publicly ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... Infinite, down the Infinite, and back around to building 14 before we finally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking ... , and think about whether we want to change them.  Strategically ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014