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• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ” daily science fiction, a slightly longer story for every weekday of the ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park, FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas ... other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the ... . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with ... bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... discussing philosophy, the role of ethics in science, and the power of wordplay ... people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  University of Florida. Tim Tebow could easily be known as the wunderkind who ... friend Steve '11 (freshman ex-roommate) was reminded of the story of Tim ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  internships, as well as color coded them to keep track of where I was applying ... freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying ... application process was rather untraditional. We applied through our high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... university. I ended up living there for the majority of my time in Mexico and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  some kind of terrified misery, drowning in math and science. I came ... My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  that the vast majority of students applying were like you (and, as I ... of you: entries for the Intel Science Talent Search are due at 11:59pm ... asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... now to apply again? Every year a very, very small number of students ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... are great matches for the university and who might not otherwise apply

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... (School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) faculty. The dinners are ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole musical. expect a bad ending. hermes tells us this in one of the most upbeat

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... of the Paige Universe (or Pagi-nation, as she prefers to call it): math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies ... , because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  you (this applies to other elements of your application as well). Note ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  researchers at the Technical University of Denmark, both having to do with the ... required class for Computer Science majors. It’s a special kind of class ... lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018