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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being ... schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... to finish an entire [annotation note="impossible - emily"]Pamela Reif

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  continued to blog and had a few other entries by another student, I believe ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... 'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• 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 / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... invite our friends over to our house to enjoy some dessert, smooth jazz, and karaoke as the night goes on. Most people dress to impress although

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• 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 / 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