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• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she ... put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon ... ’re going to make happen in five to six months’ time, and for many of us who

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... they've been struggling to find an "Algebra for Kids!" book. I said that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  serve. I wrote huddled in the back of my car, an orange minivan with a ... , about Auri, a girl who lives in the tunnels beneath an ancient university ... asleep for the first time. I wrote: So apparently in daytime I feel a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  American variety) and an international movie in the lounge immediately ... looking for 5-6 frosh to join our diverse community next year, and once you ... ? come and find out!) presented by Leadership Training Institute - look for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... pretty sleep-deprived the next day because I only slept for an hour, but I ... trip, though, was the food. In an effort to be ~fancy~ college students

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  campus in late August as an Associate Advisor. Cadet Jay Laone ‘20 ... science and engineering in elementary and middle schools in an effort to get ... Hostrop (Wellesley) ‘20 spent her summer in Beijing, China as a media

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  generally considered inappropriate for women to dabble in issues of science ... published by Francesco Algarotti as an easier alternative for the Newtonian theories for ladies. One of the most important women in early Science was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... looking for a program that didn’t promise that and rather had a different focus. I looked at many programs, but in the end decided that IHP would

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  during peak hours. An advanced air-filtration system results in an ultra ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... -efficient buildings in developing countries, like China, that are both cost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the ... to figure out what admissions officers are looking for and it is the ... be special for you as that is the way it works. In the end if you pick

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Are you interested in any of: making governments work better ... Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members ... typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  either 1) stayed in high school for an additional year, rather than leave ... essay for its content, to learn more about you. Answer the questions in an ... (which has been my excuse for the past two days). Anyway, as an EC, here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  histories buried beneath our cities. For 3 weeks, our class studied in São ... and what my life looked like here :). Prior to arriving in Brazil, we ... . Furthermore, we also had an accompanying field trip for nearly every of the 14

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  code for an entire model but instead only fill in some lines of code here ... , but for an MIT crowd, I want to see the numbers move! Maybe they didn ... interested in completing, considering each one took at least an hour to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications. In my first few years as an admissions officer, my strategy was simply

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  campus, so I got an exclusive look into the so-called awful time everyone ... notes word for word and maybe adding an example here and there. If it ... living. (Still need the A's for grad school though so bye-bye drive-in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be Cambridge, California, or China. Four of the greatest years of your life are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in ... (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the ... I was an East Campus senator in the UA. I'm also part of Alpha Phi

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , having written an initial draft for [annotation note="reading and writing ... their extended family in China, and touches on a lot of themes I find ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020