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• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... lot of intercollegiate events throughout the year that MIT students and ... of MIT and Wellesley students attending the cultural night. I really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that ... 's really not the end of the world. You probably don't want to believe me as I

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... decisively took out the last enemy unit. The whistle blew. "The score of the

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT ... Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week ... my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  's how it works. You should accept the offer of admission from another ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... only 6 males. This made me wonder about the number of female applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... domestic applicants has ended. I spent much of the day discussing and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  fellow mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... Action — 29,282 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2029. As of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the mailing list of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association, or (SUMA). I ... state-of-the-art Trading Room. ~ Learn about market efficiency! ~ Compete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made ... piece of MIT pi, and opt for the path less travelled. Some simply elect

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time ... reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... has a long history of astronauts: More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  love the first two weeks of class when I get to experience a new schedule ... against myself and have a lot of degree requirements left, I can only really ... schedule, so there are even more for the spring!"]The list of HASS classes I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... /Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter ... 's really not that hard.  As the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... . What field of study appeals to you the most right now? (100/100) I applied to MIT largely because of the program in Urban Science and Planning

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  competition, the first season of which gave us the imminently quotable Jay McCarroll, Austin Scarlett, and Kara Saun. Anyway, in the middle of the recap, I came across this description of the (literally) magnetic muslin gown of designer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005