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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... believed it. The thing about your application is that it's a trade

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  to ask. Remember that the interview is not only a way for us to get to ... interview is simply a chance to talk about what interests you and the things ... .) Send a short thank you note after the interview. This is not at all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  a just few of the standouts on this list, and how they might fit into your plans:   Mount Holyoke College: Mount Holyoke is a women ... Madison and Milwaukee, is a small college focusing on liberal arts &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few ... wondering what I'm thinking. Probably not too much of a surprise that I'd want to work at MIT. The Institvte is a mental amusement park

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  agreed that the results depend heavily on how students define a “leadership ... trouble, and cheer a lot at races. I don’t even know how I became captain. I ... applicant is interviewed, and Ed says the interview reveals a lot about the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working ... -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own ... some media has spun--that he is a sex addict who wanted to kill sex ... ’m lucky to be fetishized, that this is a form of acceptance. It is the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... . There is not always a freaking app for that. Take water again as an ... ’s too complex. Yes, there is definitely, absolutely a role for science

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  of THALIDOMIDE. 3. Fluorine is a TERRIBLE nucleophile. Despite the 59 ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story ... upon a time at MIT, Sarah Tabacco was a black-clad, curly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... uncle: "Joonho, how was summer vacation?" "It was fun, I did research at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  night. And it is staffed by paid employees, volunteers, and a faculty ... After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... her message was that she wasn”t saying our personal use of technology is

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however, we have a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  - this blog, kept by a local New Orleans reporter, is a great primary ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don ... prevent this from happening again? How would you design it? To applicants

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... Neutrality Net Neutrality is a topic that I've been closely following for a ... - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  : "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the resonant, omnipresent, pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT's majors - known as Courses, with a capital C - is known by a number ... ; Engineering (founded as Geology and Mining; Geology is now a part of Course 12

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  only mildly official even though it is straight up an advertisement. As some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a little more about the process that is consuming my life. Grad ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the ... possible to come with an almost clean mind about a subject (not much prior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on ... day or yours. Remember there is life outside a college decision, or a ... rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech ... contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how ... Cambridge, now, but I am sort of mad that the MIT Pirate's Certificate is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016