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• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... beauty of it. You take notes just like you do with a normal pen and paper ... -taking because I tend to do one of two things. Either I obsessively write down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... since these posts were written, the insights offered in these posts are

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  temporary offering, had only been around at MIT for five years. Over the two ... ago, and thinking, 'Oh, what can we do about this?' - to now, having ... . They've been doing a heck of a job. Abigail told me that attendance at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as recreational activities that MIT offers students, there are so many that I don

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... next few days really thinking through the offer. The dean arranged a meet ... help and advice. Though we do have a group chat for all of us studying

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something ... didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other ... being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... full fledged business plans, much of the class has to do with exuding ... confident executive urged us to do: with BOLDNESS, CONFIDENCE, PASSION, FOCUS

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  January 6th, 2021. If you plan to apply to MIT for Regular Action, you do not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension ... holidays this season must find new ways to do so safely while still spending

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all ... , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... most trusted inner-circle made my stomach do flips, and don’t even

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the ... ." Prof. Drennan: "You will never do an acid-base titration at MIT." Goes on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... said something like "yeah maybe YOU don't, but I definitely do!" But ... , or limit the things you can do. You owe it to yourself to find the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  the fall and spring terms, which we spend taking courses, doing research ... -up question - “So what are you doing for this IAP?” - a little later.) But ... ?) If you ask two people what they're doing over IAP, you'll almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  (offering free ice cream and challenging engineering-themed games), the crowd ... did do a 7-member-strong half-time show, although there were no skates ... technically you have to wait until you're an admitted student to do that. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period), MIT offers micro-internships, which ... accepted the offer. I did have another micro-internship offer, but I ... Minecraft bot could do, I decided to focus on food recipes. Ideally, a human

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That ... , you should grab them quick." "Do you want this belt? I think it'd look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019