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• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... . When we get them, the folders are all set to go -- it looks so easy! But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... probably wouldn’t even get in. Sadly, even though the talk was held in ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  . It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... just yelling across the room. Since we can't really get away with that ... operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you ... get 3-4 example papers per class that are like problem sets. You

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... groups, you wouldn't really get to fully experience MIT. Thus, CPW is like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the ... you want to get into and how long the waitlist is). Also, once you get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... still passed. However, shortly after getting my test I exclaimed, "Shoot ... amplifier, and a speaker. Put it all together and what do you get? Well, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home ... restless, but it seems like as soon as I get somewhere, I'm already thinking ... and in life, too. I guess getting there is really more than half the fun

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... job that are getting placed on the back burner (we're simultaneously ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... MIT philosophy. Finally, a note on the classic how did I get here story: lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much ... free to play T-Pass Bingo which basically involves getting off at a

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... really lucky I did, because I didn't get a job offer until two days before the deadline (anyone who didn't get a job offer by the deadline didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get ... from Kendall/MIT to Porter). Getting off campus and out of the city for

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... times this past month. We would get up way before the sun rose to drive to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be ... any more intense? do you feel like you’re getting closer to act upon ... , when i’m lining up to get food from the dining hall, no, i don’t feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... an ENTIRE DAY getting my Jibo robot set up. Yes, that's right ... blog post soon... GETTING SWOLE: I have so much time that I literally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  typical) but as someone (maybe a child) who knows how to get places ... ="I stand by cutting through Briggs Field."]Discover a shortcut that gets you ... register for you. Get a free air mattress. Courtesy of the many overnight

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  get my Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences minor. It’s Week 5, and ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... —and who knows who will visit next! As a result, we get the most accurate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... ). Happy because I finally get to eat, and because it's my favorite class. It ... : get out by 8pm, on bad days: stay past midnight. Whenever lab ends

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008