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• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... the need to "out do" anyone here- but rather we fall into the temptation

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108 ... -Yale-MIT trip to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, driving all the way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow ... ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... . next to Central Park? That's where my medical school (and the medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night gardening when I can to stay cool during extreme heat waves I'm fleeing to ... for a couple weeks it’s time for anyone who wants to blog to let us

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to ... I'd been able to go to all of these awesome events - but, alas, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly explained to us that while most of us probably thought that cream tea was an

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  deadline to contact your alumni interviewer (Educational Counselor, or EC) is Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... in the next month, because once Thanksgiving hits, things start to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those ... , and any supplemental materials helping us to understand those grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020