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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at ... arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... ! :) Each of these dinner-seminars begins with a feature lecture by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told ... 't necessarily regret? I think I had a lot of fair reasoning behind thinking I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100

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

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice ... you just thought I was quoting yet another song ruined by American Idol ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  flipped countless trays of crepes from scratch. By the end, we had gotten ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  .org/blogs/entry/advice_on_how_to_approach_your/      1. Process and Timeline In some of the posts above, you ... most influential part of the admissions process...I remember loving the ... In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... different facets of art here at MIT, followed by some casual chitchat about ... , music composed by the artist accompanied the patterns of light, but this

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  yet. They do not need to be in by midnight. We are processing thousands ... of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that backlog ... those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  'm still processing the  fall I've been working really hard to take care of ... , Episode 5) poem fun fact: I know 2 poems by heart, and this is one of them ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  your application account. Our transfer admissions process was quite ... to MIT), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  last day of hacklodge, c and i listened to self control by frank ocean ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... of them: one is people and another is creative work, like art or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  limited by yourself." Ack! But, don't fear. The biggest lesson of freshman ... passports, aren't we?" Anon, the visa process is handled completely by the ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On ... excuse to let go of the process a little bit. You've done everything you ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... publish a few of each of our favorites below, and I've noted which prompt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  cuts off the circulation to your arm. By the end of the day, we all had ... Tech." Actually, we were kind of known by that name. Anyway, I think the ... 't waste your energy being scared. There will be plenty of that once you see

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  process of applying to your institution. I just you to tell me about your ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006