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  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the wait list. Students on the wait ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about 1100 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  Summer Vacation - /ˈsəmər/ /vāˈkāSHən/ Defined as the period between ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... . In fact, last year the MIT pistol team won the National Championships ... , MIT is awesome at pistol, and the range is on campus, why not join? I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  've noticed that the admission process has become much more personality/character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as ... the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I should take my own notes, write on the slides, or write on the notes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President-elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  It's a beautiful day today in Boston, and looking out the window at the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can't help but feel anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the likes of Dan and Phil and other creators within the British Youtube sphere

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... ’s become an annual tradition over the past three years. There was the end of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the work due the following week in the days that follow. However. In planning

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM-DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  If you've been following the news, you may know that the Trump ... conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been ... . A few months ago, after the Presidential election, I posted an entry

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  year, the brothers participate in a rather chaotic room assignment process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ) Powerlifting is saving my life (RIP The Toast) 2) My officemates are food-shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016