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• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  shortly thereafter. I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to ... , March 17 or Tuesday, March 3/18. Decisions will be available online to ... were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all ... importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid vacation day. I'm always one to shoot for the underdog, the least privileged

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... , but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  to the website Then read the News Office article Finally, watch the ... director Michel Gondry was here just prior to CPW, he made it a point to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr. Neighbours, who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... moment, I felt so much panic. “Oh no. What am I going to say. I literally

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... . I didn’t go to career fairs or recruiting sessions; I didn’t upload my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Policy to RL circuits as you can see from the picture. With four or five ... most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... College Confidential forums. Now, don't go to these, but there are whole

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes. Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... we could do to change up the Chocolate City lounge space, I absolutely ... reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable ... alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017