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• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this ... spiral of self-doubt as I applied to different schools. I poured myself out

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  half the school resulting in the huge size of the course, I enjoyed the ... .094). I took a few years of chemistry in high school, so it seems that the ... weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  uninteresting; I ended up spending a lot of time out of school that year, drawing ... art school instead of MIT”. My art teacher, the mentor I found in the ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ability in every subject and hasn’t missed a single day of school.” My mom ... (163cm 50kg) as a sophomore in high school. We were seven people short of ... school had disturbed the competition. Of course neither of us were in the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one of the sample songs to learn about sound was performed by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  also has the business savvy (and an impeccable sense of style to go with ... One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... School of Engineering at MIT. Wow, huh? Maria, a longtime elementary ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail from more than 500 high schools scattered across the globe, from Alaska

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really ... ’s cool. I started worrying sophomore year of high school, and definitely ... school, so I didn’t have a point of reference. I was an immigrant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  and counselors because we know they are super busy. We're also aware of ... details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of ... school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  after four years of high school theater I was pleased to find that MIT had ... in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  2024. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission ... . Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety ... Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... -------------------------------- Clearly, class council is busy. The best thing our class council has thought of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -old Galena High School student, who now finds himself the recipient of a major scholarship while also being accepted to one of the most prestigious schools in ... all four years of his high school career. During his time representing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -75% of our applicants come from public schools. So your son would fit in ... schools) now enroll classes made up of more than 50% females. That is a huge ... I was amazed @ how competitive the school was and the number of AP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006