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• 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 / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... ." Neil has a busy schedule, and after I asked my question one of his AMNH ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After ... the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department ... in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  of CMU. I've never been much of a tourist, but if a friend was offering ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately ... reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  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 / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  every single plot as part of a franchise business model in conjunction ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  like MIT. Despite being one of the best schools in the country, a lot of ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Uganda. After independence, a lot of Indians opened up businesses and ... assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... Massachusetts Midterm elections! 31) A business card of an eccentric lady we ... This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess ... fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  happens more often during the school year, when sometimes the combination of ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course, given that we’re all 2017-era tech school students, our blocks often have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005