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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered about 1,000 applicants ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  more in my first year here. With the quote displayed on the giant screen ... been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... broad discussion of the whole universe.  Professor Flowers’ model of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  be offered a place at another great school. Waitlisted: In some ways ... smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... for information about non-MIT meal kits and meal prices in general. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ... yellows and oranges, MIT has shed the appearance of normal university and ... flash and java. Back in the day we didn't have all the bells and whistles

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... about my growing interest in politics, and he told me about his decision ... some good for the city he had grown up in and around. He asked me about

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  I sit upon this couch in stasis, with many better things to do ... you, the stars who reside in it, are the microcosm of joy I stumbled ... here forever. In due time, you will eventually leave me behind, alone in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass ... to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I ... about a particular place. Enjoy! P.S. Apologies in advanced for some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from ... probably would have ended up at Case Western Reserve University. Stevens

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick Patterson (the first author) was published in this week's issue of the journal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... have offered admission to 655. Consistent with MIT’s educational ... guitarists  — but hold in common a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... disruptions of the pandemic have only increased our inclination in this regard

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 697. Though they are all different in their own way —  sailors

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020