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• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your footsteps. To the breezes's soft hum. To the anticipation in silence. Because ... Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan ... list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  references to music in that past paragraph with something about engineering or ... in one way or another, and I’m excited to hit the ground running to get ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application Tracking. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... the opportunities available to them at their current or most recent ... There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... why. Smack-dab in the middle of IAP – when everyone is trying to relax

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  , in the sense that I wouldn't want to see them in trouble, or harmed, or ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... different tools in the machine shop, we get to create our own Stirling Engine ... expands to push the power piston (shown in blue) to the right. As the power

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  ", or it's "off." It doesn't make sense to talk about dynamics. In total ... pieces, and write a paragraph or two in response to any of those essay ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... now stand my ground on what I believe in, as opposed to “agreeing to ... someone was able to win an argument with me or not. Now, none of my friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  toast, or powdery snow on a sunny day. When everything sucks, try to ... Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  could be very dry (apologies to my colleagues in physics at MIT ... entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... in one friend’s room, or on another’s rug, or in the flounge with lots ... me hard. I had to build a model in seven hours in October, with barely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but ... a couple hours or a couple days. Usually, when people come to our presentations when we're on the road, or come visit campus, we have a sign-in for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... just before midnight July 15, who will wait to borrow it from a friend or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... Horrors or as “TA number 2” (the one with music on Fridays

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010