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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  pleasure, and a privilege, working with you. Stay cool. You're going to make ... As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an email to admissions [at] mit [dot] edu with your name and Application ID and we'll get back to you.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  open if you'd like to rant or vent or get out your frustrations. Scream ... senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into ... across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

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

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... at MIT is how to carve your own MIT experience without thinking about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID ... project, and get your name on a paper, then it will almost certainly have to ... else) You're free to eat at any dining hall: the meal plans are not dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 's INCREDIBLE have all your support! Voting's open until the 28th, so be sure to ... have worked equally hard to get this far, and I'd love it if you could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... that it is both fun and worthwhile to get to know the people that you ... get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  great idea, because that way you can get your MIT ID card, which has your ... finally managed to get to the point where the wireless card detected a ... I ask for?! P.S. One last tip for frosh- make sure to pick up your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. Here are a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... probably isn't going to kill you. If all goes according to plan, your senior ... handle, especially if you're applying to MIT. But you're not alone, and you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my ... we are so excited to see your faces in just two days! All of this ... instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... down Boylston towards Skullhouse. All was going well - I was nearly to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  to live a year longer. if i could recruit other people, get them to run for officership, get them to see my vision, maybe it'd last a few more ... want me to succeed, because of course your professor wants you to pass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your ... vials to run tonight sometime so I can get some data that I need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005