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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... really seem to care about the students and they are willing to do more than ... psets until the night before they are due. Bad things will happen. Horses

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  national scandal." It warns, "The price may be the slow but steady erosion of ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... . You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  , and I know you will all be great. Yes, it's terrifying to finally push that "Submit Application" button. But I promise it will be worth it in ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  appear to be how much of it is still scripted and staged. Despite the Tech ... Rings: The Two Towers). We will try to summarize some of the conclusions ... reality TV show to be on, it'd be The Amazing Race. How 'bout you?

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  weekends will be filled with exploring Boston, photo safaris, and learning to ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  on Pi Day. I don't know when we'll mail this year yet, but it will be ... "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  which will be blogged shortly) and then crashed on the couch. And by ... people in the lounge that I may be a complete lost cause on the internet ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  year's Spring Concert will be the rock band CAKE, with openers matt pond ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... piano. Determined to be 1158 cubic centimeters when the experiement was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  's performance of Leocadia. Photocredit / Hayden Taylor ARTALK will focus on the ... . Students with a multitude of interest and involvement in the arts at MIT will ... be creative. That is not to say that the classes I'm taking don

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  , this is likely to be the case for you as well ... ." Absolutely! Ideal candidates will match: MIT's mission to make the world a ... working alone all the time, that's fine! But you're not going to be happy

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... power. Some of my friends think this sort of framework may not be the most ... me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  summer, so it definitely helped to be comfortable with the people I am ... with Nitrogen. Simply put, some of the carbon are being replaced by ... own that I hope will not end in a fire alarm being set off! So far

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ... be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the ... show who you are to the group of strangers who decide if you would be a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  . The book will be in bookstores in September, and is currently available ... children will be admitted to the best colleges for them, regardless of where ... applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... help. The photographer, Pamela Hanson, was just about as nice as can be ... article! We’ll be going back to New York in the beginning of June for more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  visit. It was, in fact, being renovated, but the ride was open minus a few ... played Guitar Hero, this person must be, by far, the coolest person at MIT ... might not be up to my full blogging potential. I actually hope that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You ... to a tech school; hated the GIRs; hated being around only STEM people; hated the idea of being the only anthropology major in my year; pined

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  and tell myself that everything’s going to be alright. How the class itself goes will be another story, but I do like looking up at a clear ... will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  the next part of my life will be comparably memorable. MIT set me on a ... , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be ... on paper, I will be. As far as I’m concerned though, I’ll only really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  all, but MIT will never be the same. Because MIT is about the people. It ... for a moment, the pieces will come together again, reminding me that all ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019