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• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... . I had the control over where I ultimately enrolled. I hope you can ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  buy fome-cor this weekend. Not complaining…yet. I really hope expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on ... -squares! The knife with which I will do much damage. :P Sam '12, revelling in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in ... where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT-specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my ... ) ------------------------------------- Samira wrote, "I got gold medal in International Astronomy olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I ... something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  . I'm sitting in my room facing the EC courtyard, tapping my feet ... couldn't carry more in my hands, because I hadn't thought to bring some ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... quick to point out that I should move on because their parents can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... GIRs, and I would never have to take another physics class in my life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  in the world, and I was beyond privileged to learn from him. I can ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  where to buy food? I get most of my food at Shaw’s (Star Market; B, below ... -cooked meat Unfortunately I can’t eat this anymore because I am allergic to most ... beans in with the onions. Open and drain a can of red kidney beans. Add

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  resources into where we've been successful. In this example I identify the ... the Code and I'm in an APM/PM intern group chat where we schedule mocks ... Practices Take Home Assessments Where do I start? Resources My Personal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  , and you sat in envy. but as i listen to this song, and as my eye catches photos i have memories of but no part in, i no longer feel bitter ... jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  three months. I've lived in Burton Conner since freshman year. BC ... . This summer, I had the opportunity to live in an apartment in Somerville ... -fry gene in my DNA. And I never looked back. (I didn't have my own rice

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , Microsoft Kinect doesn't work well for people in black clothing!), I loved the ... —all in under five minutes per activity! I loved the experience. If only ... Transformation NEET, or the New Education Transformation, was the booth where I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... appreciate? ____" where ____ was either UPOP or the name of our mentor. I think

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... CHEST.  i wanted to leave everything, including myself, behind. in junior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020