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• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Next weekend will be a busy time for us all

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I ... anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  of the founding team is busy (or graduated), we joined the exec team ... The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... actually could sleep in… sleep is wonderful), we were still very, very busy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... think of it, represent the school on a public admissions blog almost

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  poorly in classes, MIT can rescind your offer of admissions.(In fact, many ... regardless of where you end up going to school, it will be different than where ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 21,706 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2022. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 20,247 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2021. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... terribly busy I make a point to say hi. Now, as I mentioned, it's only a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... undergrads generally send most of their graduating seniors to other schools ... information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... 've reached the limits of your productivity. Conclusion: (4) is your only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  ) MIT students, despite the nature of the school, are not cut throat or ... in high school. There are a wider variety of people, so I am able to ... Ask MIT students what they like about MIT, and many of them will say

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  have a greater chance of being admitted? Can I change my major (school ... for high school and college credit. Basically, since the beginning of my ... high school transcript. My question is this: If I make a note of this on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . RELAX. This is your last year of high school. Enjoy it! Definitely don ... Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016