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• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... to brush up on their classroom experience and get some fresh teacher
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  it with some help or maybe even independently. At your disposal, the ... commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or ... typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... advice, no matter your experience and how different it was from mine. To ... heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  that you are ready to get down to business. So, your first step is ... the identity of your GC, be sure to introduce yourself post haste. In fact, if you are able to get his or her email address, why not drop a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  get credit for the dimples. And suddenly, you’re kind of…free? Only for ... themselves into your lives. Hopefully, they’ll come to understand the things that get you excited, the little segments of your lives that blend like

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... . Please send the below text and attached pdf to each of your Senate contacts ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  like me right now. I've found that it's useful to identify your power ... ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... ask questions about things you didn't understand or to review your past

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  that something is good or bad. - Mostly Me I try to also get rid of ... norms to get along. - Mostly Me As assertive or as aggressive as I come ... my best to minmax and try and get as many tasks done in once. This is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  I managed to get myself through the start gate. I have no memory of ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six ... Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at ... ="110380" image2="110379" /] MIT—I hated it. I loved it. I couldn’t wait to get out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the ... ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... , your host is the perfect person to tag along with. Just talk to your host

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  Spanish, I want to write a novel, I want to get a PhD in media studies, I want to be closer to the entertainment industry and get invited to fancy movie and show premieres and meet celebrities, I want to get better at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your ... will need to know your username and password. When decisions are released ... and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  suggested a few beginner-friendly projects to get me started. Fix my sleep ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  getting to know Bawston.  FRESHMAN SPRING Introduction to CS and Programming ... spent 40 hours per week in Pappalardo, but get this: I wanted to be there ... was refreshing to get to speak freely, especially about cultural things

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... storefront, here's one from Google Maps.   We got back to the house at ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  get involved, but the following Romantic period was not as welcoming to ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  your Google Calendar, sucking away sleep, lectures, and other assignments ... now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009