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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  of 1300 GMT the decisions were at Boston's South Station (the main post ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9 ... this year is 12% down from 14% last year. I know that many of you will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went ... lot of free food (ice cream, hummus, coffee, cannolis, etc.), free stuff (water bottles, tons of t-shirts, posters, CDs, etc.), free manicures, free

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was ... . Hopefully, you'll find something of value. Otherwise, that will have been

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through.   Of course, we also solved many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... an “Institute of Technology.”  Having been talking to other class of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I know that. Lots of things happened, and particularly this fall (what with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020