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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  the proportion of students who apply Early Action vs Regular Action ... of domestic students applied Early Action, and about 2/3rds applied ... , however, almost half of our domestic applicants chose to apply during Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... offers an Academic Expo, which showcases all of the majors available at MIT ... that you can apply for and make money from. They're a great source of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the ... completed several math courses at the University of North Carolina Wilmington ... The MIT Class of 2013 has officially arrived! With this day upon us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  I found out that a good handful of my SSP friends at MIT were applying ... enjoyed and gotten a lot out of."]CS degree here.[/annotation] Getting over ... time as one. The mere thought of staying in university any longer makes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  consisted of Science Olympiad and journalism. Like, in terms of journalism, I ... legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... 'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer ... Science of Self-Help." Algis Valiunas, The New Atlantis Journal of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  just the tip of the iceberg of what MIT has to offer for international ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  of the Boston Museum of Science to run experiments with kiddos and ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005