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• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  .[/annotation] For those who grew up like me, it became the first mode of distinction ... am a bit delayed. One of the first things I did upon arriving was going ... out, along with most of my other findings. For the first time since

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  something awesome to the first person who can figure out the origin of our ... little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  especially the first 4 or so) as wishing my Great Hunger would disappear, since ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of ... rest of your life"--is the condition of realizing how incomprehensibly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  . Our next stop is Chicago, which, incredibly, concludes the first leg of ... , until it inevitably did. Honestly, this first leg of the trip has been ... Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... ." ___________________________________________ Prefrosh!!! We have Early Action adMITs now, and the circle of (admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely ... followers. 3.) Trace the outline of your hand (preferably the hand you do not ... greeting of the coming holiday. You can tell a lot about someone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  ID, but the two that I know of are significant. The first is a software ... Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  able to devote the appropriate attention and time to documenting some of ... this past semester, I thought I would close the year out first with this ... be considered the added convenience of having a dining hall on the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  and of course couldn't help myself: I stopped to read the whole bunch ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... -tech training tools I was really surprised by the layers of safety and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was ... Square (still during said FPOP) and feeling the vibration of the trains

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... again. Even though a majority of the attempts were spent watching the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  the course of the first few weeks of the class, I began to fall further ... memory so suppressed that for the first half of the production I could ... the night before our first performance. It took a lot out of all of us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge ... it. But not too many of these dimensions, or you mess up the whole ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... nowadays. I will be the first to admit that I'm very vocal. And also very blunt. I'm not afraid to call it as it is, and I'm usually the first to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... you anonymously suggest at the beginning of the meeting. Facilitators

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008