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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... grow. There will be ample opportunity for other people to pay for you to ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  as needed. The Midyear Report also includes an opportunity for you to ... Updates"). The Midyear Grades form has fields for your to report your ... Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  went to rehearsal for the final project in dance, played in a badminton ... , incidentally, lasted all of 1 whole day for us (no!)] went to cheerleading ... before turning them in for good. If I don't sound terribly grateful to the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After ... , especially for those admits who were not able to attend. Click here to check it ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  platitudes. you can feel that you want to avoid everything mit-related for the ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  this was probably mostly due to illness, but a lot of it still holds for ... for learning about capacitance. Well, we'll have to rectify that in ... 's going to happen to my professor to make up for this? Ever heard of a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades ... weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... to love every single class you take at MIT, but for the most part, I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants ... approaching. For admissions officers, there are many, many decisions to be made ... thesis proposal; ugh.  :)  Luckily it's somewhat okay for me to stay up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  to pass in 1993, the hackers did make sure to run Tetris for April 24th ... designed—one to hold the LEDs, and one for the microcontroller and power supply.  By the time the hackers left for winter break, they were ready to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... .804 (Computational Cognitive Science) - i've been waiting to take this class for a ... concept. for the final project, we get to play around with (or come up with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... for this name). She took us to China when I was just 4 years old and my ... not be here if it were not for her. She was the first person to believe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... to [annotation note= "ASE stands for Advanced Standing Examination ... I’m glad to be getting the foundational knowledge needed for some

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for ... quality? like, no, absolutely not. was it quantity? yes, enough for me to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... semester, and there aren't any previous Course 6 exchanges to rely on for ... credits to transfer over, but it'll be work on our end to petition for those

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  here on these blogs with open threads for you to chat with admissions ... I'm here today, accompanied by Tim's very hardworking cousin, to announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  CourseWare']OCW[/annotation] to prepare for my [annotation note='Single Variable Calculus']18 ... warmly accompanied me as I waited for everyone to come back. I would bump ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  students go to learn about companies, some go to find internships for the ... that this company looks for “innovative” employees. I was excited to see ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  difficult to solve for. What are they? When is it, that critical point, where ... 'm back to studying for 18.03. If anybody feels like they can effectively ... So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  try out for an a capella group. I looked forward to living in East ... available for all to express themselves on the wooden walls) (the Wall of Bad ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015