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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody ... important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true, but I guess the failing part happens before the asking for help part, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... revolution. There are good reasons for the old system to be overhauled ... possible, allows for a personalized work path, and promotes innovation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  ) One of MITs pilot online courses for their new high-quality online ... . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  known to rely on MIT fraternity parties for their weekend fun. The parties ... postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... requesting an extension for May 1? I have not received my financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... laugh maniacally at your crawling pace. That probably suffices for now

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

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

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  people. The best hacks leave behind instructions for Physical Plant to ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... ! Decades before computer hackers were. For that matter, where do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  make a meme generator for like an hour, and then bailed to play pool at ... my entire wardrobe for the past few years has been solely comprised of ... trepidation for the sheer amount of my wardrobe I was sending off into USPS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... festival? Sounds fun! What's happening there? JOHN: I'm actually... not sure ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or ... so? How can we be best helpful for you as you make your college ... Registration: Please register for CPW by March 25 or when your travel plans are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  best helpful for you as you make your college decision? ... 's Entry: Chris wrote an awesome entry earlier today for admitted students ... that. (This goes for both EA and RA admits who have submitted complete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  me for taking pointless online quizzes, but I love taking them. I don ... pretty fun quiz. I'm an INFJ-T, which stands for[annotation note="For fun ... of holiday gift package for people, and it's even more fun with friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  stand out in many ways besides awards. We do not try for a 50:50 gender ... that. For me, though, the best essays are those that really give me a ... , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... specific dates for decisions would be just that -- speculation. I promise you ... enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online ... Mensah. What was even MORE impressive for me was that all three had videos that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... MIT next year after the Institute won an online poll that allowed the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  educational, the workshops were for the most part fun and interactive! They ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  about what song you will play in the background. Settle for something ... that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seem more fancy, or when we played hot seat for the millionth time, or ... nervous… but yeah, uh, he really likes this song, he’d play it for me a lot ... that, and he played this song for me after” Then, it was time to sing

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025