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• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  which I'm actually doing). But, that's not the best part, since we have ... , crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... . "Attention. A weather front is approaching the esplanade and will hit us at

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  happened to you at what time, and then post the information? Not 'just ... 't done much within the field, but it is something that interests me. Based ... make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  I realistically choose one?  Well, the truth is, I’m still pretty ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... possible. All I need to do is make it through the class… Ah, sweet summer

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... ;decisions.mit.edu      <<< You can log in using the same username and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  ! What I did not acquire at the MIT Career fair: A job. Yes, usually the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... more interested in sophomores or juniors. I do not have a resume. The

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... shake it off. I also enjoy the people. The walk to Trader Joe's is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  that is the HASS requirement. If you do not understand the HASS ... get the feeling that it's really not encouraged. The good thing is that ... I'm home for the evening. Cheerleading is a time commitment of about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  earned him the 2006 Morikami Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship is awarded ... Japan. The culture is so different from ours, and the language, the ... I've been meeting." The Morikami is one of many places where Kubber

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  see when it checks the scrollbar value is not 100, but 100 – 20 + 1 = 81 ... the Y Combinator (http://www.ycombinator.com/) program, which is still ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong ... . This is turn explains why I've spent the last two hours of my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... time, materials, and requirement specifications, and did not go for the ... was also graced—not once, but twice!—with a visit by the ultimate MIT

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional ... has not been in use since they received the machine. In Brisas del Mar ... . There´s not much that we can do about the machine, but we are

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  things through the body. i'm not sure how ready i am for that. arcade fire ... . it opens my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i ... the person is held back, partly, by their own mind. the first verse says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  lab, a 25-minute walk down Mass Ave. Usually the day is clear, or ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  the ring include: It has not one, but TWO space exploration references! On the Bezel's sidewalk is a footprint, commemorating the life of ... in the future. ~Kirsten Also on the bezel is the green building, how

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  have to say, though, a neck brace is THE way to travel. Know those ... existing and not become an abandoned ghost town in the woods somewhere. I ... .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer ... ? But So-and-so is taking five! And that kid down the hall is taking six ... . The class is a small one: eleven students and the lecturer, Seth Mnookin

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket of these cats not ... into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man” is assertive and rambling, “A Wicker Basket” is quietly observing. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... library, and who's not into the Harry Potter craze at all. Are you excited?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004