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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  MIT, you should stay in contact with us. I'd recommend an email, a ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  physics (in which case, I'll have to switch my major). The interesting ... ,at MIT you can do an IROP (close cousin to the UROP) study there If I ... .S. in light of the dwindling time we have left here on Earth, I propose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... pulled down my window and my shades, assured that I was in for another 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  my AP Physics C scores. So all in all, I was very happy to see my ... organized in one handy folder, but since I already bored you with that topic, I'll leave it out of this entry.) The last piece of information in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... camera from scratch, in between classes and a summer job, I finished it in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that I don’t think I can handle anything Pi Day-related. We’re all headed ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  later, I presented myself to my mother in shame, fully expecting to be ... kept on the highest shelf in the fridge. As I licked my spoon clean, I ... under control, she opened her mouth. I braced myself. In Tamil, she said

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... stuff, so I schedule it in. Essentially: there are no empty calendar days ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  2.004 and focus on 2.006 so that I can get an A/B instead of what is ... means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with ... validated all the work I put in trying to work through the nasty Klein

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  .” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are ... that I’m going crazy to think that of all things, benches can be

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010