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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... , 2013. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke—I ended up beginning to write in earnest just three ... -seven consecutive hours of consciousness in my scramble to actually finish it. By the ... to prevent them from jumping the proverbial shark. in my year, it was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I ... 're in Northern California, I hope to see you, too. Best wishes to all of ... -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  to spend countless hours in lab is also an extremely important factor ... So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... - Now I know to keep my MIT ID in my wallet at all times and I leave for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  ="Try to ignore the flaming blender in the corner... he'll be fine, it's not ... shoebox in my closet me! There’s more to the floor than my gremlin cave ... ,  in which everyone on this floor likes board games to some extent, and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  federal government to support education in low-income families. I'm proud of ... As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left ... getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she decided to come back behind desk and get them with me and she TOTALLY saw

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... :30 (with our Mexican take-out food in hand) to claim second-row seats, which turned out to be a fabulous idea because the auditorium filled up. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab ... reading. In order to graduate with a degree in course 9, there is a rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... resolved to continue wearing the Brass Rat daily – at least until I get ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  interesting to see what the West culturally imported from the East back in the ... Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... 't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square ... like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... taking pictures. We walk a bit more. We get lost in this side street

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... struggled, not always successfully, to resist the pull of the former in favor ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy ... Council on Education estimates 75,000 to 100,000 college students in the New ... Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my ... get to places. I'm also pretty excited to see all the places I never got

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  getting access to Caroline fell through. In the wise words of one of our ... are just like the rest of us, in a hurry to get from one place to ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024