Apply /
First-year applicants
Creative portfolios
description of each work’s concept or inspiration.
Note: only one Visual Art
Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / Featured Blogs
EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
Screaming It’s been a while. Welcome back. Let’s get this over with ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and ... are we quoting Wikipedia’s article on Vlad the Impaler? An architect -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden ... . - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton -
Blog / Admissions
It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you
absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington’s ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year’s ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
hopes that they will be among the select few admitted. So let’s go back ... get the idea. If you don’t, there’s probably nothing else that I can say. -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament
other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not ... because "it's a soccer bonding thing." P.P.S. Happy Thanksgiving! -
Blog / Featured Blogs
The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by -
Blog / Featured Blogs
A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough
3, my floor, seems to like movies. It’s how we relax. Our floor lounge ... ’m a huge fan of Christopher Nolan’s films - Inception is my favorite of ... made plans to attend. “It’s too bad I’m so busy this week,” I thought -
Blog / Admissions
16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW
time before graduation when a significant portion of the 2016s are in one -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.
. According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background: ... 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was -
Blog / Admissions
Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.
to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... applicant's true voice when we read his or her essay. Not some perfect ... therefore, a connection. We can always tell when an applicant's essay has -
Blog / Featured Blogs
How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly
I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so… Anyway, here’s ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which -
Blog / Featured Blogs
There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity
feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... this pet theory. It’s not perfect, and I don’t really know how well it ... don’t really work that well immediately after a meal. So let’s add in -
Blog / About Decisions
Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!
’t a career catastrophe. There’s an entire world out there that doesn’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let’s -
Blog / Admissions
The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has ... the Charles River. (You can catch glimpses of Stu’s office in some of -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for orientation was from Alaska. While in Paris this weekend, Ling ’07 and I went to the… -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions
In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers saying how they couldn’t accept so many… -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down
Book Expo America (BEA) and we were both attendants. My dad’s steadfast ... actually having to invest yourself in this battlefield of emotions. There’s ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.
, MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... audience members from around the globe. It’s the closest thing you ... rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real -
Blog / Admissions
There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…
This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... her dream of becoming a teacher. It makes me think of one girl’s amazing