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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... needed to get through this. And thank you to the Academy. See you next ... Hey yall. It's been a while. On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you’d come back. I’ll pray, beg, get on my knees, if you think it’s gratitude I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  . Yum. No pictures though, it wasn't on my plate long enough to photograph ... semester at MIT, something I didn't get to do last summer. I went to bed ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  , and would get to work on lots of cool projects related to my interests ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting ... stuck and have no clue how to begin (like me). I’m constantly

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with ... ’d invited me to live with them somewhere on the east coast. I knew that not ... ’d written them little notes to fill my break times on my journey. But when I

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern ... fit various classes and how best to shape my time at MIT to fulfill ... , catching up on the sleep that seems to hide during the term. :-) I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the ... achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... at MIT is how to carve your own MIT experience without thinking about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  and on your own for a few weeks. It’s a good thing to know that you can ... nice to learn what it means to earn your own money. 5. Get an internship ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... may find that MyMIT and your text editor disagree sometimes on how many ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with ... they'll say they would love to be your lab partner or roommate if they

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  to find on-campus student employment, and how your online student ... the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out our improved ... students are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  depends on how much you can handle. What you are interested in. Your preferences, if you have a grip on them in the first place. How much you are ... . You will walk back to your room at 5AM. You will eat inedible food. You

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... existing product (in this case, the ability to control your playlist) and ... "bridge loops" covering a wide range of mileage, so it's not too hard to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg ... was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  go to every conference they can get their hands on, so it wouldn ... way to class this morning. (Click on the picture to see the glorious ... 's a lion on his head. I also wanted to share the "Picower manifesto

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your official transcript to be submitted
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020