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• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  fear regarding the state of the world if I let the time pass by without ... the game. I watched some of them play a board game about energy ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  would like to know whether the process of granting financial aid at MIT is ... answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  gave a decade-by-decade look at the history of the Institvte, and helped ... dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The dorm also goes by ... ". The houses of the dormitory go by the names "Goodale", "

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  competition-level good, as evidenced by the standings of a Boston crossword ... fear of being judged badly by others singing mistakes outweighed anything ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  professional race car driver. Maria, of course, processed this information. And ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what ... 'm reposting it here: So as you're probably aware, MIT has a dedicated group of student bloggers who have spilled huge amounts of virtual ink on every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  together a class. I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a very difficult admissions process because of ... admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  very difficult early action process because of the large numbers of very ... admitted 540 students for an admit rate of 11%, or fewer than one of every ... 'll have more to say about the process for the admitted students, deferred

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the election has been the educational prospects of undocumented students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns ... that goes into making a mascot! For one: there’s a process behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... flight that had been delayed by two hours. So, I got out my laptop and ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my fellow adMITs. my daily routine consisted of waking up, making a matcha latte with almond milk, being vaguely productive for a couple of hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  again, so I'm not too far removed from the whole process. One of the ... So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  by the end of IAP, a goal that kept both of us (and Chris) very busy ... This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  importance of setting boundaries around your projects and learning process. I ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  it was a PROCESS. And looking back, we probably made some mistakes, which made the process more complicated/drawn out than it had to be. So ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005