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• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  want out of life. In high school, I only really knew that I had some ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for ... over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this ... . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  the quality of their school's college counseling.“ Enjoy. If your brain ... near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... floormate of mine, Jacob Cole '14, along with Prabhav Jain '14 and Merry Mou

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted ... of the Harvard Business School and the location of some of the panels ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must ... schools, which I believe have a high percentage of women in the liberal arts ... female students and administrators from Ivy League schools such as Yale

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... people to dress up as the cast of Hey Arnold! or The Magic School Bus for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  interests, a strong work ethic, and a busy life (kind of like now, ha). When I ... , especially because grade school tends to prevent intense pursuit of a single ... would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly ... future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  time, and generally take care of business. An overview of the most ... guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What entrepreneurship programs are offered?

  Here are just a few of more than 85 resources dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT: Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Design
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  and all business. A beautiful, invincible modern marvel of sorts. Of ... , working myself into a bit of a situation not only with this Vista business ... You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  this is that not receiving an offer of admission does not make an ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also ... of students at the schools you are interested in. As for Admissions ... rigor of your school and its grading standards is one part of your context

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  sleep. I met my host grandfather in my freshman year of high school, when ... I went to Japan⁠—which was every year of high school. the second and ... I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022