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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  this one IB exam, and my school doesn't offer it. My school offers very ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... school senior said, as part of a longer e-mail: I really want to study

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  school students during six weeks of the summer. I co-directed the ESP SAT ... I'm thrilled to have a group of awesome high school students (we went ... blogs since school ended. To be honest, this summer had been wonderful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  very different in high school than they do now, but the moral of the ... It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... prioritize public schools (~70% of MIT undergraduates attended public schools ... School, which offers a magnet program in health sciences to all students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs ... that MIT is not one of those big football schools where thousands of fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... , but then taught economics at Harvard Business School. Finally, after a ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  and wedding announcements have appeared. Several of my middle school ... myself, mostly because my birthday always falls at the start of the school ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... people here. I fortified myself against the stresses of this school by ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or ... typically includes one or three hours of classroom training depending on year
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... offer. But at the same time, there were downsides. By the end of senior

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009