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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  when I got to MIT, I would proceed to get C’s on pretty much all of the ... turned out to be MIT. I certainly have never regretted applying to MIT or ... 've learned is that though on the surface I’m not the typical MIT candidate

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  . Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere else ... you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  . Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere else ... you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the ... , and the letters M-I-T inside. looking forward to checking up on this ... arrival of an admit letter. Finally, a little after 3pm on December 19, 2003

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  news is that this has been an ideal place to see people as they arrive on ... them online for so many months! I've taken a ton of pics which I'll post ... . Finally free of the Reg Room, I was able to attend the welcome ceremony

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  friends because we'd have something in common to talk about or do. Of course ... 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of ... renewable energy is still something I want to pursue and taught me to always

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our impressions of each applicant. While this external validation is an absolutely

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  static images. And Lydia may or may not have suggested that I try to vlog ... . Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end-of-summer optimism), or at least stick to it as best as possible! (Also I swear that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  is my best friend. Have it on hold, you’re ready to go! Swipe, swipe ... all similar to questions on quizzes and exams –because Mastering Physics ... bunch of concepts, put twists on the classical examples, and churn out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  summer, the goal is to have a strong data set to back up statements of how ... blogging is going to look like. With the help of some of my fellow bloggers ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... according to the MIT course evaluations, Schrock is considered one of the best ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... or imagined slights, typically related to their unorthodox studies." Ok ... , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  definitely doesn’t have a coherent point of view or an extensive blogging ... least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters ... or is it more of an isolationist feel? - Noise level? 5. Miscellaneous ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  rest of stem was interesting too anyway, all this is to say that lately ... , i would simply move onto my friends of friends, and so on. there is no ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... I would never really be set on a college until May, because MIT was to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010