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• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  time, I don't want you to think we're just happy for the people who got ... 't get me wrong - I am *very* happy for the folks who made it in. They help ... decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

   you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Monday Series guided by Amy McCreath of LEM (Lutheran Episcopal Ministry) and hosted by LBGT@MIT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender at MIT). Join us for an hour of relaxation, self-reflection, and personal growth

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for Thanksgiving, and waiting for the weekend, and waiting for spring to come so that

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 ... put out by the powerful hackers who do this for a living. Script Kiddies ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to MIT. You’d just be hanging out for a few more months to get a better ... I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as soon as

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  classes race by, translates to a need for strong time-management that ... receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up ... . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  reasons for looking into a new field. Use every opportunity to show off ... have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... basic getting-to-know-you questions. Here are some things to keep in mind

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the ... to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... name) to coordinate details for the Hunt,which starts this Friday. Our #1 ... ultimate goal is to develop treatments for scarring that can sometimes occur

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... , all classes at MIT are taught by distinguished professors because we
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  giving me a great chance to be better informed about what life is like for ... prepared to take on my sophomore year having declared my major and settled in for the long haul. I joined the Chorallaries, I helped design my class

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... hosts on hand, so we may be able to accommodate some late registrants for ... !) and released hosting assignments for CPW. Here's what the crowd at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time ... to Rohan'15 for this gem of a conversation I'm about to share: Rohan

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  . Keeping up with the standard I had set by eating for the Internet, they ... on the event, they would have gone for Alex, who has Eric beaten by ... I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... ask me about (i.e. "Do any normal students get admitted to MIT, or do I ... the present day: this story was emailed along to me by Ellen Stordy, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  , did I mention that I went to New York City for an all-expenses-paid 23 ... student pays respect to the history of African Americans in New York by, um ... secret fondness for plantains. I attempted to become a critically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  taking as much time as needed to get the job done right.   Of those 33 ... admit them to the Class of 2026. Getting to "meet" so many capable ... admitted students. Answers to frequently asked questions for waitlisted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022