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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  only completed about 5 of the applications by mid-December (under the ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... there was a giant blizzard in Cambridge, MA, which delayed the shipping of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... students free of charge.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress ... Doctrine -- the enthusiastic belief in the liberating power of technology

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  , and could only admit ~1600 students. But most of the students to whom we ... applies. The inability to offer admission can leave you thinking that because MIT or the Ivy League or wherever did not offer you admission, that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that ... frostbite. Thankfully, we were indoors for most of the trek across campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an ...  hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining ... how hard some companies were hit by the lack of revenue. Luckily, Twitch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you, mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... off will be the day of the apocalypse) Some background: every October, 1W (the smallest hall in East Campus) throws lots of pumpkins off the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the ... Jobs was one of the most influential people in my life. Not because I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... overwhelming if it's your third donut of the morning (we work hard ... (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... basically the master of churning out pointless fluff "insightful" essays for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  stereotypical culture difference between the west and east sides of campus. During ... On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next ... warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... disappoints. 7:30pm–8:45pm Official Welcome for Parents. Perhaps one of the ... education - and this will tell you about much of the rest. 2:00pm–4:00pm

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007