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• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you ... period of time. More updates soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it ...  One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... were starting - because a few days ago, I got kicked out of my ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  members of my team. One of the most important things to me about Sakata is ... here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  river) and even stadium seating built into one of the rooms. His like many ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  , landed in Boston at 7:30AM, and rolled right into a day of meetings to ... students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... admissions officer in person. Our destinations fall into roughly three

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ...  interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B. '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  some point, the beautiful pieces of the Met start conflating into one ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... ’t awful, but considering how much all of my friends raved about this city i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  of the collection is a group of important nineteenth-century paintings ... Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are simply impossible to answer outside of selection committee. To everyone who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... answer to any of those things a year from now either. What's important is ... upperclassmen made sure to stress the importance of friendship and community here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  teammate, a mix of people from CMU and Berkeley, branched out from us into ... was going to start soon. A bunch of Galactic members flew into Boston ... . Many puzzles are kind of divided into two parts. Roughly, there’s a phase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  worst and best time of my life. That year I felt myself spiraling into my ... and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  isn't really that important to consider, as they sell a lot of adapters ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I finally fixed it. As scary as it was almost breaking our very important

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  extent the strength (or weakness) of particular high schools factors into ... chances of getting into MIT (or, for that matter, any top schools you ... that's gone into 3+ years of HS and my applications, that a B+ or two on

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  There have been plenty of posts about MIT's career fairs, mostly talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts, pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of companies set up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of ... So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012