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• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... classes to plan what you want to take each semester. Pictures make more ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or your Kerberos) will be your login to the computing systems here, it'll be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was ... student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria’s International Mathematics Olympiad team, and if I wanted to turn probability into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... closed. But I digress...last Friday morning I was assigned to do the session. Now, I knew that the application was due to be go live this week

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month later. Either way, I urge everyone, admitted or otherwise, to try to visit

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore ... visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... ). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone call from Procter and Gamble alerting me to the fact that I had an interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... expected many things. What I did not expect was to be treated, so suddenly, like an adult. That might sound strange to you, but what I mean is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  vague sense) that my undergraduate education was going to open many doors ... I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn ... dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to

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

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... -- you may not be surprised to hear -- that being an MIT student gives you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011