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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  indicator of your interest in them as a school. Colleen (Flower Mound, TX): I ... Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  )[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  unfortunate other extreme of P/NR) A good indicator is thus - if you're in A ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated ... course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write about, but in the sense that MIT gives you the topic with little effort on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are ... again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... another kind of porousness in response. My Stephanie script is twelve pages

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post, which might provide insight to people interested in software engineering ... explain any software term that might need a definition in an annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... . JOHN: We’re both heading over there in a few minutes. Gonna be dope. A ... costumes? The flyers didn’t really elaborate on— FRANK AND JOHN: (in unison

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... have after you click ok: Zoom in and out using ctrl+ - and ctrl ... toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... like after graduation.  In retrospect, I should have been more proactive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007