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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... , now is a good time to be in touch, whether by email, phone, or whatever ... 'll provide some data about the Mittens (MIT-Tens, as coined by Stephanie in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the ... admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is ... over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  published, I noticed that I’ve quickly ditched all the ways I’d been distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no ... CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit ... give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... high schoolers begin to subscribe to the mentality that a college is one ... fail to see, but the incessant reassurance from everyone I know "that you're

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  , up-and-coming tech scenes like Pittsburgh are the way to go. The cost ... to the codebase has to be checked by at least one engineer, who has a ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... all the way back to Next House, even though the doctor said that more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  pleasure. Besides, he didn't need to get into MIT, not the way I did. When ... to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where ... and the resources to wreck and rebuild your world to align with your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  field extensions to love and all relationships. The whiteboard by my door ... dozens of posts, and whether I’ll get to writing them is unclear. I hope ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  Ben has done. It was beautiful. "Many Ways To Define "The Best"" Some ... doing things only to get into certain colleges. The machine is fed from ... quick recap. First you apply. Your application is read by a senior staff

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  message that led you to the Frontier Airlines website. It turns out that ... was CHO. (3)The trick was to identify the characters played by Rogers ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... simply getting into a college; your goal should be to graduate. And quite ... students can increase their odds is to feel confident that the college they

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  feature of the new LCE website that was just released (which is why mine ... premise is pretty simple. You show up, get free lunch, and talk to other ... learning--not only should you get to practice the language you want to learn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  -Yale-MIT trip to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, driving all the way ... demonstrate your capacity to communicate: forum posts, a weekly editorial in the ... supplement to your blogging portfolio or as your portfolio itself. Again, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  which the objective is to lower a stick propped up by the index fingers of ... to share, and it is very rewarding to discover the stories of your ... side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  to get in all my materials by the end of the day today. Will i be ... more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is November 1 ... friday. Would it be too late for us to have the interview? Is it too late

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  rather, the street parallel to it b/c i would get distracted by [annotation ... take the train back to MIT. So I look at it on google maps real quick ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  comments on an entry the comment is e-mailed to us, this way we get to see ... is FULL of information, bloggers use it all the time to get information ... 'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your ... bloggers past about the very specific feeling that is awaiting your college ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay by Keri G. '10 ... Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life by Jenny X. '13 Leaving a Mark by Kate ... doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014