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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  page. We decided to focus on SFS first, and so we're planning to launch ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions.org. Although we are two separate offices, we report to the same Dean (that would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  since this would be my first time taking others out) In full, I got to ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . Also, shooting rifles is fun.  The ride up to the ski resort. My first ... My summer internship ended on Friday, August 17. Today was the first day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study.  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a ... . we eliminated a [annotation note="Alan Z. ’23, Jonathan H. ’25 and I decided to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  at TSL instead. At first we were reluctant to even ask TSL if working ... our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat ... watching, you also may remember that I got asked to prom. What??) If you ... really wants to talk more about this, but also knows that it would be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  invent some games to play, the first being the Rolling Game. Rules: Roll ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  're excited to have you as our guests! Here are some (hopefully) helpful hints ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run ... had only one interview. This was due to two factors: First, my middling ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time ... accumulate after your first three trips to Shaw’s (our local grocery store ... in your mouth. Beanbag When I first came to MIT I bought a butterfly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this ... and after, the slow trek through Cambridge and Somerville, first past

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... first place - by giving people more freedom to decide where they'll live ... Africa, actually. As for the application? At first, I stressed about it to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at ... some interesting light on what we're trying to do with our portfolios. If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014