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• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes with the assumption that you should only use your credit card for things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... (and as you can see, I read the articles whether they’re actually ... you can get nicer ones than your school/business/institution will have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  in early September. You can learn more about music at MIT and our music ... answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... in the college choosing and I am thinking if we can set up sth like a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven ... the system, it will show up in the online tracking system. But the fun ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  still have them write you a recommendation. They can write in their native ... ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  two freebie posts; for fall and spring semester, you can write about ... about, but in the sense that MIT gives you the topic with little effort on ... . I still usually feel like I can follow along, at least, in lectures

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... to do well in them, but if you don't do the psets, then you can't do ... " anymore. Exams are no longer something you can cram for in 2 hours and pull

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can ... baseline of academic preparation. We need to be really confident that you can come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... can belong at MIT, so can you. I’m good at all of that! Over the years I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application to the ... regular action admission to MIT. This means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... research mathematics and discover ideas that did not exist before. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  domestic applicant, you must have your Green Card or the stamp in your ... will have your Green Card in hand within a few weeks, you should email ... a T ride away. And with the abundance of ethnic food in the area, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... current 6.005 student. This is a theme in college: as you get older, your ... much separated in age from you, if at all. He says something that I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... 't satisfied to simply recreate our print materials in the online space. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…

  

  The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world ... ... As you may have noticed, the deadline for EA has been extended to November 5. Good luck to those of you who are finishing up your early apps

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... way. But then I started chatting with future classmates in an online ... holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  , but I've been quiet and left you in suspense. This means that you all ... courses 2 and 16, which means you can take it for EECS, Mechanical ... -camera sensors. Also, in case you didn't catch it from the second to last link

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... long as you're an MIT undergrad then you can re-apply next summer! We ... any online personality test out there. Taylor L. ‘29 from North

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different ... created a collaborative online map that any member of the community can add ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022