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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  familiar universe previously explainable by reason, science, and Stephen ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  five different universities. We saw some of the best student ... University of Technology’s car can corner at 3 G’s of acceleration. There ... brakes. The University of Stuttgart team that won the electric competition

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  consistently lead me out of the classroom and into projects more applied or ... of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The ... the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT education (burritos, roller coasters, and such) from the comfort of their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... worth, since you likely qualified just by applying. You are a part of the ... senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking ... of Disease and Health in Society) and watch a pretty intriguing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like [annotation note="Robotics: Science and Systems"]6.141[/annotation] students /j ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  UniversityRed Line: Harvard10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Tufts UniversityRed Line: Davis9am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, Monday-Friday Boston UniversityGreen Line ... UniversityGreen Line, E Train: Northeastern9am, 10am, 2pm, 3pm, Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only ... science in high school, and a lot of my best friends are people I've met through some science-related event"]a key aspect of my life

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  had a Science Bowl, a Spanish Club, Future Physicians of America, and a ... would later help you apply it to a testing situation. Worse, some of my ... transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  International University who was the head of a new VR lab there, telling us that ... Computer Graphics Research at University of Miami Learning from Sophomore ... : cover letter, resume, submit. We applied to a lot of things, but in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008