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  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  reading this post will end up at other colleges next year. If you are one of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... floor, common area of main floor, thai iced tea i ordered at team lunch ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

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

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  practice. Yay! We grab dinner at one of the few restaurants in the area, and ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my ... Khan (founder of Khan Academy) made at the 2012 Commencement where he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  me to a few rounds of “the ninja game,” offered us a drive ... Maggie Lloyd Class of 2012 Alumna MIT-Belgium Program Internship ... internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  presentations at the end of the week. UPOP isn't perfect - sometimes the sheer ... point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT ... graduation. For most of my time at the Institute, I fully believed them, using ... any of my academic classes at MIT prepared me for many the challenges I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... , free pizza, liquid nitrogen ice cream, donuts, dinners at fraternities ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes, and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  . At the conclusion of the tour, student tour guides lead a tour of ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006