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• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... rankings or someone else's list of "best" colleges. A school missing from ... 's definition of a "good" school. Certainly there were schools I liked more than

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  of school per week (Wednesdays are researved for mentorship and inquiry ... 've been going to a magnet school (I think that's what it is) half of every ... school has one of the worst science programs possible. (And it's not like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  night and write my statement of purpose. (For grad school, you don't get ... relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles River" -- although my classes are all at the medical school campus, which ... than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of ... high school, but this was nothing like that. Instead of soldering ... cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... year. The internship was pitched to me as a better class than any school could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a ... offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... -blowing business is addictive. Of course, the real smash hit of the party was the ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  Institutes of Health (NIH) to several judges and Harvard Medical School faculty ... influential members of the MIT community take time out of their busy schedules ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  schools -- have no concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You ... , "I’m not currently attending school; MIT has all of my grades ... . Thanks for taking care of business! 

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  , "I’m not currently attending school; MIT has all of my grades ... on time.  Thanks for taking care of business! ... that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to ... of them. Full disclosure: I got admitted into MIT and my safety school

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  keep my busy this summer, one of which is... THE DREADED MCAT. Yeah ... (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  in Seattle, W.A. where most girls wore the hijab in school as part of ... back to the very first week of college. One of my friends offered me a ... freshman year at MIT. Coming back to school in the fall, I of course didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM ... thrive." As the report says, MIT has offered generations of people the ... as ‘friend-of-the-court’ —  is filed by entities not themselves parties

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022