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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  Jenny and I listened to while conducting important admissions business.It's still unknown exactly how many students we will admit during early action, but it is likely to be fewer than last year's 383, and with application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my heart, that I have to come back later to see more. (It's also pushing me ... . This one is "Openness and Respect". Speaking for myself, I find it ironic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time ... Confused, it's about time I watch some new stuff. Orange is the New Black is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  connected me to relatives in Italy and formed long-lasting friendships. I hope ... largest power company in Italy and second largest in Europe. It operates ... :  Largest energy company in the world, mainly using nuclear power plants. It

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  a truly Herculean task. Consider it retribution. Or payback. Or both ... and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little ... , shower, and dress. It's been working out nicely. As I'm sure you can all

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... sensory overload at its peak. (You'd say the same thing if you saw five instances of 100 identically dressed young women in a single day.) Sure, it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  . At your leisure. I mean, because it still applies here--you, too could ... . Jackson prophesied so long ago, their main hamburger is indeed called a ... -McFreeWireless. It might not be the best upload space up there, but, then again, since

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  Section!! He was 9 pounds 15 ounces and 22 inches long at birth. My wife was ... , I believe my dad said it best, "Wow, looks like you gave birth to a ... " Nance) understand that having Miles around is A GOOD THING! It was all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  decided to make it our major in-house rush activity. It was pretty ... explained on the website. It really means nothing, except we decorate with ... members of the "Creepy Stalkers" group on thefacebook, so we thought it'd be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  and Long Beach, CA). In subject matter, it was a little like the PBS ... -American teenagers in Lowell, Massachusetts (about 30 miles north of Boston, it's home ... School in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago), but it was a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them ... Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  process (it’s hard to do!) and how to showcase strengths such as resilience ... reminded me of how much I’ve learned and grown since being on campus, and it ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  its plastic contents up and down in a discordant symphony? How can one ... It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... . It’s cold and dark and quiet outside; the river has frozen over; some

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... him close by at App State or some UNC. It was biomedical engineering and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  3) AHHHHHHH IT'S FRANK WILCZEK!!! I freaked, babbled about science and ... got a little bolder. "Your interests are very broad." He laughed. "It ... ." How embarrassing. Anyway, I spent about an hour more taking notes in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit ... guide to submitting letters of recommendations, as it answers most of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too ... . The result? It was an 80s party. Please remember that before you judge ... unfortunate, since it meant I stayed out until after 2 AM and had to get my butt

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... the establishment and the post-its wall.          We imbibed, in order ... with maple bacon); tomato basil, which is absolutely a donut because it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015