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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  Focus on getting educated. Learn to talk. models for thinking . Use your ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to recover. Trust me: You're better off learning to balance ambition and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  design is that you get to actually see your work in use, especially when it ... like looming deadlines and assignments to really get the procrastination ... it filled me with renewed vigor to get better.   [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of recommendation from people who can write well on your behalf, or to at least have
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as soon as ... . Welcome – MIT’s an amazing place (no matter what you’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of ... on weekdays). We appreciate your patience as we rapidly transition to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing ... .) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Believe It, Then Don ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  managed to get lost in the dark.   Credit your innate sense ... consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... to get started with them. Sure, I could do stuff, but today I don

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... long as your tests have been taken and designated to be sent to MIT, we do not need to have your scores at MIT by January 1st. We will have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  TOO FAR! They may get freaked out if your IM pops up and your best ... . Disable your IM and then walk away. Parents, Welcome to the Nance Effect! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May ... -acclaimed International House. < more shameless plug> Video bought to you by yours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we ... your teachers that are writing your evaluations, and be sure to thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... victim). Happy pi day! Brought to you by your social chairs + eva + anna ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  . Congratulations on your final decision. You are about to enter an intensely wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a ... semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... things that you'd like to include in your application, but that don't fit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... the way to junior fall. Oh - and take 5.111 (or 5.112!) if you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  into them if you really want to. If you don't get your first choice HASS ... . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within ... your bed to be, although the highest you can get it is about 3.5 or 4

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006