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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is ... with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  . In High School, I had an English teacher (who remains one of my ... through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... sophomore year of high school in a pretty competitive place. It had a few Ivy ... and the effort to go through another four years of schooling deserves

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• 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 / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• 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 / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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