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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . It doesn't mean you weren’t “good enough” for MIT ... —you do. MIT’s nuclear reactor will not give you special powers ... ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a job, exercise, drink 8 cups…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  ; one aeronautical adMIT sent hers into space. This past spring, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones ... myself for the first few days since I was at MIT a week early for DEECS

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  points: there's a page headed with the phone number from MIT Medical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z ... getting a tour of the NYPD Cyberintelligence Unit organized by MIT's career ... Tau Beta Pi (MIT's engineering honor society), and spent a great deal of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Macarrones con Queso, Tocino y Jalapeño para los Indigentes haciendo algo más grande que yo

  

  , independientemente de la lucha diaria de MIT, quería tomar tiempo de mi día para hacer ... Bentley y MIT donaron tanto que llegamos a nuestra meta. Pero no habíamos

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  arrived in Pittsburgh and, as is tradition, invited enrolling MIT 2019s who ... I knew from the MIT application process, as there were dozens of ... before I began working at MIT Admissions. We didn't have science fairs at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  do research at MIT (especially as a undergrad - you can work in Prof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It’s been a couple weeks, hasn’t it? Now that I’m back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs from this…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  's an awesome MIT experience. Kresge auditorium is PACKED with students, parents, MIT professors, and industry representatives. There's an amazing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  , we like to talk about MIT Beef and the Lab for Chocolate Science. I ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you ... find that something else at MIT. Lo and behold, I actually had a great

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I’m going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don’t like writing or will stop writing text…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  Even though MIT decisions are released on the same day every single ... camera around to show Tim's MIT shirt as everyone runs into a pie ... admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  : aniokevu@mit.edu. Regardless of sentiments, there’s a whole lot to look ... new friends in MIT *Eat better *Stay organized *Hang out with certain

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don’t welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9:30 AM (cough. Next House, Monday morning). Your backpack:…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I’m going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I’m in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013