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• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... there who are just like you, going through the same anxiety, the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to ... “ Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to ... -help quotes go... "failure is not the opposite of success—it's part of success

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  . Now about 1). Here's the thing. CPW is not MIT everyday. But everything ... whether or not you like MIT.) You'd be amazed by the number of student ... engineering is the art by which people express themselves; building cool things

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  application, but an important thing to remember is that MIT is not the only ... a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  inconvenient location, prompting not sympathy but laughter from the warring ... remember the battle by, save for memories and my war diary. Here it is, enjoy. ... ! Please excuse the lolcat/EECS reference, it was a necessary evil. Surprise

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the ... windowsill: This is the 4th Ware lounge of Senior House, where I live: This is a view of the Pru and the Charles from Senior House: And this is a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what people gush over when talking about the Pacific Northwest is the hiking ... moment. But the view over the mountain range is incredible. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  might not be enough. And she has a point. "This is sort of the peak of ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... warns that today's overscheduled lifestyle is robbing children of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a voltage difference appears because the Kapton is an insulator and does not ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  the area, and then having a better experience, which is great. but some ... living in the same room all day is anything new to me, because during my ... , is just not fair. i started taking bupropion, a common brand of which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is that I sometimes forget what the outside world is like. Of course I know ... who had the courage to speak out, but were silenced, or simply not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in ... guilty for not constantly tooling. To my amazement, the wallowing never ... in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the ... . Not everyone can get into this school, and besides, it's not the first ... I'm on the subway or at the market. What gives me pause, you see, is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  ’ll grow to care for in the future. It is not easy, but “I have gotten much ... “I am not a good person.” It’s more of a list than it is an article ... graduation approaching. The truth is, we are both going somewhere, and I

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  will be sent via postal mail. We will not be releasing decisions on the web, on email, or over the phone. The date of the mailing will be announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  inspirational here that would make the hurt of not being admitted go away, something that would make the vast majority of you not be disappointed. But ... tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... orange and black tiles on the floor outside the elevator landing, which is ... might not be able to exist in the way we want to once we move back in, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  am not sure if you guys have the same feeling, but sometimes you just ... amazing in their own respect, but in honesty they just simply were not the ... with the world via blogs. I actually would not shut up. I feel like at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  's not finals (Common, who enjoys those?). It's the 2.009 presentations!!! 2.009 is the Product Engineering Process class, usually taken by ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  when Snively took it! (2008). By the way, the rolly-thing is not the ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... not blogged much this semester, and this term also broke the record for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010