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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... the day. Better yet, I had two weeks of days like this before helping at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  ) Dining. There is a constant stream of food from the Howard Dining Hall ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft ... can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  . Of the 20 for which she applied, she has received seven acceptances ... university she should apply, she was worried about the cost, said Victoria Lee ... ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... , Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  have rainbow lights down the middle section of our hall, and under these ... building and the coolest section of hall. We got 11 new frosh this year ... /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  more applicants we have. When I applied to MIT, we admitted one out of ... process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  need the help of other processes to do so or can only apply it to ... look for universals. Often are gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  Perpendicular Universe, Exactly, Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of ... universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... lockboxes didn't really make sense in-universe. Then there was the concept of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  climb up to the roofdeck of Random Hall and I transcribe the sunset that ... Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What entrepreneurship programs are offered?

  Here are just a few of more than 85 resources dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT: Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Design
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of ... on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  I'm BAaaaaaaCK! Classes are building up, students are working, halls ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

   is the study of applied physics mechanics — “how to build things that won’t break” Electrical engineering is the study of applied physics ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said, as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  the wide range of resources MIT has to offer. If you're applying to ... Career Week. Events of Libraries Week include: Photos with Tim the Beaver ... accused me of having with the Lewis Music Library.) Events of MISTI Week

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005