Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  how many people came to the event. That way, the next year, we can try ... gauge your level of interest when deciding whom to admit. But for MIT ... on your admissions decision. We know that not every student has the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... your TOEFL scores, make sure the name on your application is exactly the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  . How many of your past interviewers have spontaneously asked you to tell ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  your dreams. It’s really enlightening realizing how my perspective has ... to major in? Am I set on Computer Science? What else should I be ... offered at MIT, how do I want to spend my free time? How do I want to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is ... commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will ... to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're ... 't get into Harvard supposed to get into Minerva? Even the most cynical ... ) as opposed to the intellectual core of your class. Put another way: any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... 've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... walk across Storrow Drive, you can get to Boston Common where this summer ... to rival volcanic eruptions are also very exciting to see. A few

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  to work on other puzzles, but despite my recharging with pizza, carrot ... faster than we can solve them ... bummer. Alright, I'm gonna get started on ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  capsaicin to get a really spicy dish?" "Actually…that would work. Okay ... 's easy for you to learn about neat stuff through the grapevine. If you're ... hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Prejudice some more. 6:15 am: I get on a bus out of NYC. It’s heading to ... just explore on your own and think for a bit. Sometimes, it’s nice to ... am working on my novel, or making a sad attempt to work on my novel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... are amazing and if you're on the fence about coming to MIT because you ... having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  movies or want to learn how to beat the casinos, then, um, MIT is your ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  getting to volunteer for the day and see how it all worked was pretty cool ... and turn off your desperate-student-trying-to-get-employed persona and ... weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  didn't get to see it all year. And usually during the school year, Adam and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during ... that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... satisfied with your sentences. Then move on to Step 6. I actually did ... have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  your best way to get to MIT on public transportation. Most of you will drive to MIT on the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90). To get to the ... , you'll have to get your p[arents to sign it and fax it to us at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  to get involved with the radio station and have my very own show ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in ... to listen to WMBR streaming live on www.wmbr.org. The shows are also

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  you had ever seen before, and did not tell you how to start or what to ... you had to write computer-words to tell a computer how to help you ... -surprised by how easy it was to give Up-Goer Five names to these groups of hard

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024