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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  difficult to leave my job in admissions since I have really enjoyed working ... prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... things are becoming clear to me. This time of year my life has long been

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first time, visit Mike's Pastry. (I *actually* wanted to go to the North End

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  ’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably still wrapping up summer ventures, but 2014s are probably almost ready to ... digging up my 2009 Guide to Residences … (it's still so pretty & so

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is ... ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  't know what to do other than watch and hope. And I keep thinking "did this really have to happen?" Those of you who plan to be engineers, perhaps you can answer this question: when New Orleans rebuilds, what can be done to

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or ... that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your mind, and that you may need to focus on other things, or be temporarily
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  that used to embarrass me but am now simply too tired to care because ... /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked hyperlocal radio personality Kayode D. '27 to curate [annotation note="leave a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  illuminati responsible for the common core 2) I'm trying to learn to spin dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... to MIT, and we have offered early admission to 657. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. This year, 7,767 students applied for early admission to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to ... printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... -depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... responded that it was “good.”  That turned out to be an unsatisfactory

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... the past few months, I feel like we’ve really gotten to know each other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016