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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... chemical engineering at MIT and have no intention of choosing any other ... admissions office looks at your 'list' of achievements and capabilities and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... at our disposal too. When I walked in, some of the people were going ... , the capital of Pakistan. After someone pointed this out, we were at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  resume at some of the smaller companies that ask for one. My friend and I ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... at home – sometimes the dead of night was the only time I could truly ... previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  . To be a creative writer at MIT, there’s a certain amount of going ... My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my face contemplatively sip coffee at you from my blog header, my tooling

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... the percentage of MIT students living at dorms owning a TV set ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Arizona, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... 's mother at a little league game--that alone is worth the price of admission ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... Venice. Three of our brothers lived in LA, so we had a barbecue at Alex ... two weeks of travelling, we are finally at my home stop, New Jersey. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If ... enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... , and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT ... Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005