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• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next ... . Ignore any of those "RECORD NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS APPLYING TO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to ... actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 ... years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... grail of "a nice company that will pay for you to go back to grad school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• 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?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades ... encourage students to send those types of grades if they have them, because
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect, and what not to expect. Your host: A team of admissions staff and MIT students spent much of thos week trying our best to find every one of you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  delivering my second cup of black coffee to remark, "Are you a grad student? I ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown. A bunch of the ChemE's decided to grow beards as part of a male

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -term freshmen to recent alums returning to regale us with tales of life after

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... continuing to grow elsewhere. The idea of flying 6 hours (+/- the 3 hour time ... -stubborn brain, to be honest. I didn't immediately have the "IHTFP" (of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... several ways to interpret this word, and I mean each of them; I don ... begun to take matters into their own hands after decades of protest and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... country song to sell over a million copies, Vernon Dalhart’s version of ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... wonderful way to take my MIT journey above and beyond! Living and working in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two ... planning to spend the rest of the day buried in orgo like an ostrich in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  to nearly half his usual size and had none of the jovial playful spirit ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... types of essay questions we ask now, we try to optimize for those essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014