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• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  . Additionally, I would recommend sending us a letter in mid-late April with an ... students. Okay, what should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  I enjoy productivity that's tangible, so cooking is one of my ... just sticking it in the freezer and letting it thaw; that releases a lot ... tomato paste with a knife--did NOT go well, highly recommend not doing that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  physics course that a large portion of the freshman class enrolls in – we ... film that lasted 2.5 hours - and I had a physics quiz the next day. The ... traveling alone at night; all I could do was pray that Google Maps proves

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  gagging)." [annotation note="In fact, I think that Aubie the Tiger has the ... of college football was so potent in my upbringing, I assumed as a kid ... history, when I learned that the Puritans founded Harvard College for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  about actual black holes, but I do know that time seemed to warp that ... approaching, or maybe it was just the fact that the lab was in a windowless ... basement was excitement, and I knew in that moment, there was nowhere else I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... impressive) feat. I took ownership and pride in this work, a very, very toned ... , hey, I produced that! With some help, but yeah that was me! And then in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a ... remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan ... a technology strategist in his days and is an active Educational ... , she also thinks Sawyer is cute. So last week, I combined her two loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is really intensive and really curious. The result of that is that I have a ... myself doing well enough in school that I could get into a place like MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my ... make for you in Paint. Yes, dear, I do know how to use Mathematica, but I ... Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ’re doing, but you never really do. But then you play a little something that ... sliver of the moon in your eyes?”. Aw, that’s pretty cute. Maybe it’ll be a ... , even if that “person” is a metaphor or completely made up. We’ll see

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of ... software called "Mathematica" that is pretty much my savior. It's the smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  forth. I never used to have to do this. When I was a kid, I was the king ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  grade in that class is based entirely on your performance on two two ... trig integrals. I didn't want to do it. I think I got a 45%.) Another ... Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit ... I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... information in a 3 hour test. It was a level of understanding that my high

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  , I know that's a lot of chemistry and math talk right there. Yes, that ... I've been here nearly a semester and a half now, and I feel that ... . Sometimes, that may take more effort than others. But you can do it. In every

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  excuse is that I'm tired of uploading my pictures for this blog because it ... important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now ... that we trained him to tweet whatever he's doing. So, if you'd like, you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  mailing list culture I really appreciate that I work at a place where ... Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to ... from campus, and I pay with debit, because there is a whole wide, WIDE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008