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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  :00 PM- I talk to my mentor’s boss about my spreadsheets and get a whole ... - it’s more of a when to ask for help from my mentor I try to live by ... *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... .  And by that, I mean our instructor said: "I want you all to design a ... , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get ... heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... Admissions blogs -- including blogs by three admissions officers, the Director

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... . Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck ... - give yourself a chance to get used to MIT. Be open to change. Speak up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... caused Conner 4 and Conner 5 to become filled with a bunch of Asian people ... the school year I had a pretty consistent sleep schedule, go to bed

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  leading me to miss my connection to Chicago O'Hare by approximately two ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  to Be a Scientist" by me. Awesome. Questions! 1. Everyone thinks I ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  out to by a Microsoft recruiter and Responsible AI engineer, had a few ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  stopped in places to get my mom and I a shirt, and I bought the mug feautred ... great time. I even got a stranger to take an awkward picture of me by the ... will be, a part of me that desires to adventure, get off campus, and take

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and ... memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems ... you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... since I came to MIT. When I arrived as a freshman, I thought I was going

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015