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• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... prompt for the rest of their life compared to most leading universities ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . Dear Ella,  We have completed our early action review of your ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... .com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... professional mindsets among students of underrepresented minority groups, with
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... threshold of a new world of possibilities, like I could really achieve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  , University of Northern Iowa (http ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement ... Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006