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• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  fair held at MIT, but it's one of the more interesting ones. (In the ... Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large ... . I wanted a challenge, but I didn't want it at the expense of ... . (This is kind of a duh. But I wasn't thinking of it at the time.) 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... when they threw yet another curveball at me, this time in the form of a ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  at 10 am and figuring out what tie to wear this morning was a bit of an ... tough deciding which one I'd like. The allure of one offer is that their ... 'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now available at   > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  are one of the most painfully complicated things currently at MIT. So ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  enough at those interests to be rewarded with some extrinsic markers of ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... who represented the United States at the International Chemistry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  approximation 0.00237769994 + 0.10368577 i. A lot of departments at MIT have ... out that we'd need to shoot the m&m at about an 18 degree angle at ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... seen the joy of at any other place. ... what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media ... those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... at least the 1960s – gives me confidence that we have not offered a ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... ; Eat Chipotle (instead of Anna's) (on the daily, if at all possible ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  preparation includes—at the very least—one year each of college-level calculus ... on a case-by-case basis and depends on your course of study and institutional offerings. The transfer admissions process is highly competitive
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83 ... (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  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 profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009