Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  get attached. This college process, is, of course, a two-way street. You ... So... tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the ... decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  stage presence. After she sang Julien, which is about how she'll never ... a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... realized that sometimes bliss is not meant to last, if only so you can move

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to help their application is make sure everything is done on time!). As you ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  the time to make something without worrying how good or complete it is? Heck, take a nap! Being a person, especially a high school senior, is ... blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... , there are a lot of things that need to happen before an application is ... MIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -crazed city of San Francisco. No matter how many tech companies I sent a resume ... blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  much about MIT, but my job is to, in 30 or 60 or 90 minutes, encapsulate ... application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently ... Old English is (like Latin, and unlike modern English) a case language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... your left is the Lake City Amtrak Station." "Where?" I asked. "You missed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate ... curiously charming roundabout way, is freshmen advisors. When you arrive on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  want to do is sit still and go online (at least it was for me) but if that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice ... keeps cropping up every year around decisions times and can routinely be a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were ... we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... 'll update the freshman class profile page closer to Registration Day. Here's a

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

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  would be a fun, one-time-only endeavor. And the outing began pretty much ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of ... silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will probably never happen. Even more unfortunately, I am a ridiculously heavy sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  Random Hall is named "Destiny." Why would a floor be named Destiny? Well ... is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... was so excited about wishing you a happy April 31, because, as Ling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006