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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  middle of your sophomore year, to allow time to get a pre-medical advisor ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you will divulge your greatest disappointments and accomplishments to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  , don’t fret yet. Make sure to finish your other applications, find where ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge-find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your ... ? Well, it's this wonderful machine shop that MIT students can use to make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... !)  When your walls come tumbling down, you don’t have to rebuild them.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• 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

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  to get your rational mind with your emotional mind working together to ... Speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs said, “Have the courage to follow your heart ... right for you. That is why you must learn to trust your intuition, which

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... . “Oh no! How dare they ask a simple get-to-know-you question instead of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... provide (new awards, changes to your activities, etc.). We will accept ... Committee will primarily look to the Midyear Report for your updates. What

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to get this feature written. you're planning for futures that won't happen ... i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  day. If you try to comment, and your comment gets blocked...try removing ... come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other ... would instead include these updates in your Midyear Report. The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be ... when you're hungry, it can be irritating to smell hours later. Take out

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... pigeons.You should send your faxes to 617-687-9184. As always, if you have ... . And what we don't want people to think is that they get any sort of edge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  lot of schools of the same caliber, and you’re generally going to get ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get ... . One of Daymé’s favorite parts of WISE was getting to build night lights

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• 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 / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  likes to say, your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. The last time I ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... this publicly, to your benefit, dear reader."]even to myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... 't want to say dead end but sort of 'O.K., here's your role, here's your lab

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on ... offered at MIT will be there to address your questions. There's always been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010