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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I ... -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for ... well regardless. My wedding and honeymoon does mean I'll be off email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party, have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy ... community here is so open, friendly, and accessible. I love being able to stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  no longer going to be all that I had dreamt about. People on the train ... being denied access to a place that is a home for my hopeful heart and ... , this would’ve continued to be my bottled up secret. Typing this, even now

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  freshmen. Totally optional, but a great way for incoming students to meet ... First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the next problem. This may have been, subconsciously, due to the hope that I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to ... know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the ... not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we will consider our ... waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• 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 school, whether that be letter grades, numerical grades, narrative
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right about now, right? How about forcefully regulating your heart rate by ... since you’re physically exhausted, you can’t mentally exhaust yourself by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  …) This particular talk was sponsored by NoMoreVictims.org, which “works to ... humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to ... ! seriously guys, I'm excited for you all, it's going to be such an awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So ... sport. We had so much fun that it almost made me want to be 40... um, NOT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough ... moral virtue, and like other moral virtues, we expect it to be signaled ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag a bug report to the "Done" column on Trello. This might be Stockholm ... I usually don't make *official* posts, so I'll try to keep this one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  , maybe I just miss the freedom that comes with being away from home, but I miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you about last semester, but I didn't have the time. I think it would be kinda

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  's questions, or being painfully honest about the terror of flying to college for the first time. Blogging is being careful not to reveal how little I ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you ... selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007