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• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  also that during some of the most awesome times, I was too busy (or ... . Thats what we called you in high school. Everyone was afraid of the ... all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... Wellesley. Today was our first day of GELcamp (more formally known as Camp ... -MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... exercise, I made a list of different kinds of classes that high school ... . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... science in high school, and a lot of my best friends are people I've met ... solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2018 are now available at >>>       ... of these students were academically competitive and well-matched, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents loved getting to visit me here.) MIT offers information sessions followed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... 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 / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... applicants). I am attending Mount Sinai School of Medicine. IV. In April, I ... biotechnology. I have yet to hear about a school that offers such a comprehensive

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... school (MIT, Harvard, Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley.) There are a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  guess I won't know any of this for sure until the school year begins and I ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  almost definitely want to go to grad school. None of these facts are ... to go to grad school v. the ethics of career choice vi. conclusion ... high school with my competition poster[/caption] Of course, the high

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental ... introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... think differently. In high school, I was, like a lot of you, an academic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  the college I got into. It is none of your business." And then sometimes ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019