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  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  your college applications this cycle. The balance of the applicants ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  your college applications this cycle. The balance of the applicants ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... . What if they've already reached their (nonexistent) quota of black

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of ... got national recognition when they won the grand prize of $25,000 in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising ... . Now consider New College in Oxford, which is 620 years old and gets its

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... weekend I attended "CollegeFest 2009" at the Hynes Convention Center, just

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  , NJ Roxbury Community College, MA   But of course, there is ... adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  year of high school -- but it's even weirder in college. All the juniors ... introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... over the past few months, you know that there's been a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  us to work together as we will when we leave the shelter of a college ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I ... examples of how I use Notion! College Application Tracking Example Back in 2017, I used a Google Sheet to keep track of my college applications, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  . However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of ... students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been ... college experiences, and we wish you all the very best at the college you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... weren't MIT, I settled into a groove of writing for the college ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011