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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular action, you may want to set that interview up pretty soon as well). For MIT ... intended to be overly formal. You should dress nicely, but you don't have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  each unique MIT experience. Not to sound cheesy, but you guys are doing ... and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... having to actually vote, which was a really nice conclusion to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  out? The website just says 'July'..." We expect to receive this year's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to distribute to on campus visitors. Shortly after that, we will begin mailing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  /meters, approximately (or, exactly sizes, if known)? Is it possible to find in Internet ... wireless access in all rooms? According to the mit wireless access map, it ... connection is mention. Whom to believe? :) If it has no wireless access, is it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that you're not allowed to bring cameras inside... so I had to scramble to find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that ... back to me, so this morning I emailed former cheerleader Caitlin SM '05 ... should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to ... world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and equipment would be limited to extremely experienced graduate students and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... ; and pulling, with trembling fingers, timid, slippery walls up to the sky

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and ... flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who ... my way back to Berlin. I had booked a flight for Thursday night, since

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... -year course that attempted to cover art history and regular history ... adopted neoclassicism, an art style which in many aspects attempted to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter, president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  UROP" to anyone who asked about summer plans, when truthfully I had no idea what to do. Then some time during March or April, I heard two ... and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008