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• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting ... communities; some have been granted a formal high school diploma, while others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ) I really love doing scientific research, 2) life is long, and getting ... relationship to science in general. The post ended up being a little long, so ... watching Star Wars for the first time in middle school and developing a years-long

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  Indigenous People's Day long weekend (not just one extra day but two! what ... Notch National Forest and State Park. It was a truly incredible trip: we ... for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  state cultures that has helped me realize just how different the world can be. Whether its realizing that Texas has their own state pledge you say ... states I now call home. However, my interest for blogging and writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... it. More than a decade (and a graduate degree in media studies from MIT ... only encountered these concepts in the academic context long after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... institutions of the United States are subject to forces similar to those that are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human ... , given that the text explicitly states (contrary to its title) that “no words or phrases have been banned at the university.” Even so, it's pretty

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  University of Illinois for my participation in Science Olympiad. I put my ... . Maria wrote: I live in Korea. And Korea has a long winter break. I want to ... think winter activities, given your long break, would be appropriate if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  largely looked like me. A lot of us are poor, black, and had lost any long ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because ... school. For a long time I had been very out of touch with other ethnic

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP) Michigan State University High ... Young Scientists (PROMYS) The Ross Program Stanford University ... Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of-state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  in Orlando, West Palm Beach, Miami, and Tampa, Florida; and Orange County, Westwood, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Long Beach ... , South-, Central- and North-Jersey, Manhattan, Queens, Long Island

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  "C's get degrees" and move on with my life as soon as possible. But ... Security Strategy, assess how well the United States is adhering to its own ... where the United States behavior supports the position taken in the essay

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago ... politics isn’t likely to capture ESFJs’ interest for too long. ESFJs are more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... States later on, so there's less riding on these ones. For me, since master ... experiencing the one singular warm day in Edinburgh, where there is a university

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and ... into a state of unrecognizable (yet crunchy) homogeneity. This made more ... a long time to cook and turned out sort of bland, so I decided that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  [annotation note="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ... first day of the 2017 state tournament, my team (women's foil, which ... sign from the universe that fencing just wasn't for me. I emailed my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  States Gary Piantedosi '76, 1976, United States John Everett '76, 1980, United States Elizabeth Bradley '81, 1988, United States Steve Tucker '91, 2000 and 2004, men's lightweight double sculls, United States FENCING

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  universities, you cannot be accepted as an undergraduate if you've taken "too many" cc classes. Also, some universities transfer cc credits, others ... (though if you are enrolled in a college degree program, you would be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006