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• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  Form. Whether you wish to remain on MIT's wait list or not, please ... instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an ... to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... everyone takes anyway, so I'm here to explain how your first midterm seasons ... multivariable calc before, but that turned out to not put me at a disadvantage

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  promise this decision is not going to be as painful for as long as you think ... nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... @Inspirational, in the not admitted thread: Hey all, I want to spread some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... sense. It's also important to show, not tell, which may not be so obvious

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  reference librarians we have here at MIT if you are unsure how to go about a ... ideas to how it ties to my thesis. This really helps me better analyze the papers and remember I'm not supposed to simply be reading these papers, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a whole year had passed. I remember my Pi Day very clearly, but I do not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... theory and observation and also to improve the understanding of how these ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  . The content was totally fair and just challenging enough not to be ... you. 9. Go to Sleep DO NOT do any more intense work that day. You ... I had a biochem exam today. It did not, uh...go as planned. What was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  how to become a kitchen god. [caption id="attachment_74200" align ... When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your ... black macbook to write my entry. I, of course, have to add MIT content to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... to finally cross-register. Step 2. Figure out which class you want to ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... pleasantly surprised to find some breaking news. While attempting to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  pillow? A blanket? Is the room going to be steamy or chilly? What not to ... ’s going to be muddy and messy. A gold chain and black suit will not help ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... to you until he or she’s not there. I want to take a little ... project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not ... not know what is about to happen, whether you experience a presumed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and ... ="aligncenter" width="217"] the coat[/caption] But I couldn't figure out how to wear it ... that the coat doesn't fit and/or you are not supposed to button them

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for ... least, not compared to some people - and I'd never gone to see the opening ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... reason to skip class. 13. Kazaa: how do people survive without it? (*NOTE ... sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005