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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... feels that pit of dread drop in their stomach as things get worse and ... way back to the States near the end of week 3 after a few days in Japan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why ... that. MIT believes in service; service to the world and service to each ... in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and ... with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... Raymond and others to get through my coding assignments and I wonder if I've really learned at MIT, or if I've only learned how to ask for help. I walk

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... everything else I'm already doing, I don't know how it's going to fit in. It ... school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  about overscheduling; they just wanted to know how to get into MIT. Now ... right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... woman who actually decides which one in seven MIT applicants gets in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where ... 'll update the freshman class profile page closer to Registration Day. Here's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  DND.  In one last attempt to get a hold of her, seeing her Find My ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... tendency to stick regardless, and how can you possibly expect anyone

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... us and spins. We have finally figured out how to control its speed and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  tired after I get home from work and the gym to actually chop things up ... how to articularte it.  I've spent countless hours after work sitting ... international development.  It's amazing how things change. At this point in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  managed to do a lot of what I said in the letter. when you get this, i hope ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... .01[/annotation] [annotation note="you can take the Advanced Standing Exams to get

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  science and engineering in elementary and middle schools in an effort to get ... on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... clumsy) and horseback riding, to meeting new friends and swimming in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  't the smartest idea; in fact, the professor might even ask you to get up ... screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... , preparing for Sunday’s competition. The pressure is on to get MIT’s car ready

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... 't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... colleges, trying to find the areas used in the Harry Potter film. If you do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017