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• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  this year. During this time, we've been waiting for all our admitted ... on admitting students from the wait list. However, this year, we saw an ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  an ambassador for such a cause. Now I am at home in Tulsa, OK interning ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... individuals, who are on fire for God, in order to learn Israel's importance to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars, James Bond and Borat. It looks like our early application numbers for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  , would sometimes be the only person cheering for the heel, or villain. In ... in love, you can relate to mxmtoon on an even deeper level because you ... note="Caleb M. 27 complains that people will call it anything but an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... Class of 2018 in mind, because they were firsts, for me, in different ways ... , and more than 1000 high schools; together, they constitute an incredible

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

  More questions

  

  CPW! If we can help you plan for CPW in any way, please call the CPW ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... any programs for parents, or is this weekend geared to convincing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  through all of that, for many reasons. First of all, as an MIT student I ... apartments and planning for the next step in my career. Theoretically, finish ... . I've been dabbling in guitar for a while, maybe it's time to do some

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  couple things each year, pay in full, and stick it in the junk drawer for ... them with the problem to look for free places in other classes and ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  was waiting for early action decisions. I know there's no real way you ... few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order, one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped ... way. i’ve found that memories don’t often fall in orderly queues aligned

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  in Computing -- which is basically an 8,000-attendee ... Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... remarks made by Microsoft's CEO. In the most striking case for me, Yoky

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... for some context. One of the major breakthroughs in biology came when ... of time). Here's an example that my lab partner in 9.12 and I ran! We

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for ... rediscovered my interest in physics My love for physics kind of flip flops

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... -apartment buildings. The proportion of streets in my town with watering ponds for ... interested in writing about what happened in my day (life was very boring for a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... working on his term project for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). In

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who ... of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  the moon. An English teacher back in Missouri, sharing my love of ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... . As an undergrad senior who isn’t applying to grad school (yet) and has

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024