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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT ... , if an oboe player decides to go somewhere else, we may, or may not, try ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  -competitors from the annual international solar car race to collaborate in designing ... have the potential to play key roles in energy innovation. In addition ... have expertise to share not only in technical fields, but also in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  remotely or travel to the region and do them in person. I was fully ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... June 15th, do the training week in-person, and possibly be able to travel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose ... track for this internship; It would not be of any benefit to you or us ... had graduated from or were enrolled in college, which I found bizarre

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my ... of Breonna Taylor on my newsfeed, in an effort to preserve my mental ... long day❤️ (I am not, in fact, being paid to advertise, but maybe I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ) After 5 or so hours, we got to West Point. Besides MIT and Cornell in ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of ... participating in meetings and social gatherings. So now he's been elevated to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... understand. Just know that you're going to be evaluated in your own unique bubble of context, and that you don't have to have a certain GPA or certain

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  that they will be in touch with you, by phone or email, tonight or ... weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... opportunities to see labs. In part, this is because labs are not designed for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  , or is it open to anyone who wants to go?" Also, midwest mom asks, "Can ... any programs for parents, or is this weekend geared to convincing ... submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  I didn’t savor the moments alone in a room all to myself, or the carpet beneath my bare feet, or the drives with my brother to school, or ... . In fact, I did all my laundry, just so that I’d return to campus with a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of ... their physics knowledge to train the handlers in keeping the balloons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... blogs seem to indicate, not everyone participates, or even intends to ... student groups try to fit in one last activity before IAP comes to an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like ... don't have to look at them or pause awkwardly to wave because they don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... race that's 10 miles or longer in length. In a fit of madness I ... stress fracture in my left foot.  I had to completely stop running from

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  MIT, or should I say my hiatus from MIT (I will be returning to the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009