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• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the ... yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... more things to know: Deadlines: The deadline is January 1, meaning

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was ... . I went through a lot (seriously, A LOT) of stress to get here, but at

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... to get involved with some new activities and continue some old ones ... principles. Later in the course, we are going to study nonideal solutions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred Open thread for deferred students.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We will have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... crowd. In a room designed to hold 12 we stuffed 25 students and a video ... schedule did not allow me to visit any schools in the El Paso area, but I did

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  down in bed than it was to get my butt to the gym. Even when I got back ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  , so I had to go to regular check-in and there was a really long line ... really fast. Then I got the people standing in line for security to let me ... decide to major in Architecture or Management, or if you just want to leave

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for ... . Eyes were wide. Slowly, residents gathered in the hallways to listen. And

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  left the students to their own devices. As we say in the urban vernacular ... ,000 worth of tuition ought to get the parents something too!) The student ... schedules to assist the admissions office in recruiting our fair share of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants I'd go to were [annotation note="small local chain with pizza that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  like to get their boss' boss (or boss' boss' boss) to write the letter ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write ... Chemistry major who had a UROP in the History department. Off to look at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... ‘insignificant.’ In math contexts, though, ‘trivial’ generally refers to something ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it ... self-reflection in a way. There’s obviously classes you have to take to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009