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• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is ... international students.   I've been promising a post about international admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from ... promises a great IAP of blog-reading. Plus, Quinton, Allison, and Kevin are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  5:00 p.m. EST.' What do you make of this? If I haven't made a decision ... from stereotypical (as are the parties). They do have a lot of parties ... ....how do i go about getting the money back?" I guess this reply is a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  people who had slightly less experience say that it’s a hard but do ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... , after I watched like one episode of [annotation note="I also had a brief

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  do any restaurants. We broke our fast with potato chips and a chocolate ... for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... yelling "Hola!" instead of "Adios!" Oh, well. After some to-do and a heroic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  . "Until then, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take a walk ... This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  . No, only with a pass. Please, this is the only thing I want to do in ... realized that a real member of the press probably wouldn't do that. So, to ... up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in ... baroque string quartet ended up sounding a little bit like a cross between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , I do think there is a meaning of life. I wrote three years ago, back ... 'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you do ... may seem like a strawman argument to you, but I do genuinely think there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  knowing me, I'll find other things to do. New York is a big city, right? I ... them after I'd come home from class, or after a meeting, when I'd come back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  loves it as much I do, or that everyone should be a comp sci major, I have ... should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6 ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  waste properly? 10) Do you pay your employees a living wage? 11) What will ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... . Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... what happens as you become a seasoned admissions officer, or maybe you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their ... ! I haven't had to do that on a regular basis for what, four years? We ... One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  to do with my summer. Last year, I started off my search a little late ... of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a ... do have a couple offers already so that's exciting. It'll be pretty

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  are you doing?" "Oh, a paper for my Art History class." "What school ... a foldable easel and a bag of paintbrushes slung over his shoulder ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008