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• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  think your job sucks. Just fyi. Ben: My job is 11.6% best-job-in ... your weekends, a rough estimate says your job is ~65.27% awesome. Work is ... Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... words in a day or two. [caption id="attachment_113806" align

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at ... 10 (not a clue what they were rating, exactly...how awesome we looked ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  all in perspective, is that MIT is not an end but a beginning. I'm aware ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  . Jacobs is also a former MIT graduate student and faculty member. I don't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT ... I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group ... Challenge is meant to be just for fun, and an interesting way to see just how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  major in a field that is not innately techical, such as Comparative Media ... the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... from kenya." If you haven't enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in about a month. On the ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  like i listened to a lot of alt r&b this yr but! thats just how it b ... is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan ... . Comments from me: how did petey manage to not listen to a singular new artist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never seen so much pink!" (This year's application cover sheets are ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology ... get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... previously #1 ranked squash player in the world is coaching a group on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick ... so we can use conservation of energy. Everything in orange is energy

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008