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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of ... that. Of course, all of the aforementioned makes blogger selection super ... feeling great about the successful applicants and miserable about all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... with the introduction of Ray, a 60 year-old logician who made a fortune in the computer industry, comes a whole new level of strangeness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  graciously offered the use of her kitchen to allow Julie to make some dishes ... pancake known as the Latke. Two teams of MIT experts will present their arguments in favor of their respective type of food. Hear the arguments of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... celebrity!!! On the FPOP, we got to visit the graves of many Founding Fathers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... different that I’m going to tell it anyways. As part of the MIT PE requirement

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... here. Anthony captures a stunning picture of me and MadMatt towards the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  tough deciding which one I'd like. The allure of one offer is that their ... of The compressive properties and function-composition relationships of ... summer internship? So one of the services MIT provides is the Career

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... from throughout the United States to engage in an intensive study of ... degree of expertise about Japan that may have a significant impact on their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of ... Washington Post study. The May graduate of Central High School was accepted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  friend Steve '11 (freshman ex-roommate) was reminded of the story of Tim ... reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and ... later on. You could find free dinners at a lot of the frats, snack

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... toss up between Battle of the Bands and NightMarket. Battle of the Bands ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006