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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  you and your lives. Because I do not work for the CEE or for MITE2S, I can't talk too much about the selection process or answer any questions ... one of these programs does not mean you will necessarily be admitted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  parents every year, bewildered that their child doesn't know where he or she ... attending the local state school already knows his or her building, room ... microcommunities at MIT, that together will paint a better picture than I would do in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  Growth Mindsets Or literally anything else that you want to ask me I ... today (August 12), minus a few hours where I'm eating food or have a meeting, and will try to answer all the questions I can. However, the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... 's circumstances, it will especially benefit you to provide concise, clear, fact ... magic words that get you in (or keep you out) of MIT. If you approach this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  all, but MIT will never be the same. Because MIT is about the people. It ... don’t either leave things or take them with us. We do both. The ... one day - maybe out in the street, at a conference, or perhaps on campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  molded, formed, blown, plated or sintered; its formal qualities are closely ... variation can drive; limit or control light transmission, reflection and ... pieces will appear in an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  Since the MITAdmissions.org blogs began some six or so years ago we ... "threading" of comments such that a distinct topic or idea can be pursued apart ... entries before  this one will retain their comments made under the old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  Program or FAP (an acronym that inevitably spawns countless ribald one ... coached a new generation of creative writers with Will '12 in the ancient ... tenure. To any future freshmen who are debating whether or not to thrust

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Silicon Valley and beyond. The MIT students (or should I say former MIT ... will help people self-organize to solve social problems. He ... fraternity. Congrats to both Laura and Jeffrey! And whether or not you return

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  will offer you a job when you graduate. Or maybe something much weirder ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or break your life, will shape your next four years. How different can two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  for MIT’s newspaper, The Tech. Some people will try to tell you ... . Actually, people will tell you a lot about engineers. A variety of one ... conversation with a dial tone or busy signal,” “real engineers consider

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  one that I'm extremely excited about is Camp Kesem - or Camp 'Magic ... . Our hope is to send 60 kids to Camp Kesem this summer, some of whom will ... in their own families. Together, the forty or so of us manage to laugh

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  : academic and co-curricular awards will usually be "scholastic." Extracurricular awards will usually be "non-scholastic." However, an important ... Roll) Awards linked to a class or department (e.g. History department

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  limit! I MUST DO EVERYTHING!" This is never a good idea. Sooner or later ... , will discover that the difference between four and five classes is far larger than we ever could have anticipated. We'll drop a class or two and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis ... awesome MIT '09s (like Nick, who apparently was just voted Prom King, or Lyn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... am peeling off a Brain BandAid with every problem solved or line of ... will occur? I hope that my mind will be cleared forever. I consider that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  , you too will suddenly become exposed to vastly more technical and ... , I imagine this will be a welcome change. Others...may be a little more ... general may seem now - you can and will find yourselves equal to it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  find 3 formulas for them and then you will get an answer, if you are lucky, and hopefully this answer will be the one your instructor intended ... you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT provides plenty of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I ... MonsterTrak, which is a version of Monster where companies will post their ... , companies will review your resume and after they review your resume, they may

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005