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• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  23. I do recommend contacting your EC this weekend, if you haven't done ... your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... . Sometimes a kind and gentle reminder can be helpful. Otherwise, I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even back then, except I didn't wear glasses. The Rap: "Neil Armstrong is ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  -Drive-side entrance sunny view of the river I don't have a bike, but many dorm residents do In-house library Here's the Porter Room, a common space large ... with a computer (the wave of the future!) Laundry room In the suites

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on ... . Online Communities. There's a list with links to various online communities ... tracking portlet (get your materials in ASAP if you haven't yet), links to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday: ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still ... cards," don't ask why), but this year, the E-3 cards are not green but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  apps at the last mniute. Normally this wouldn't be a problem for our ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the College Board Conference, with limited internet access, and the MyMIT server

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... 4th annual MIT IDEAS Competition were recently announced. A few ... which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... , region, and country. We don't have any required high school classes for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  including a soundclip, but realized I didn't know how to extract or embed ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But ... . Furthermore, if your interests don't align with an organization and you pursue ... down! You probably shouldn't tell us if you failed the medical boards

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; now, a few years later, we have taught them what they can, and they ... their origins as a class, here is what I told them:  Then, that August ... incompatible, emotions, a few of which I want to name and honor: - Sadness that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  (I don't know what they do). UpNano (they build a thing that lets you ... are talking a lot about working together being important, but I don't ... . Using your phone to sense when your brain isn't working well anymore. A

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan ... list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our class.  This year, however, we had a record high number of admitted

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... ’s grand opening, my second reaction was, “Wow, a boba machine is literally the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  , darn it. Being a biology major and dataphile and Excel-lover, I have ... wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... like "hey, that sounds like a good idea" and my sleep statistics Excel

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005