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• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people ... buddies. We see friends we know from high school. We see friends we’ve made

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  that is possible. Most students take the most rigorous version offered of ... new high school does not accept weighted credits from out-of-state schools. How important is class rank in terms of MIT admission? If my rank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event ... undergraduates were sent home last March. I was frustrated that so much of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  school), MIT does have 3 Pulitzer Prize winners on staff, and 3 of our 13 ... fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... 's and con's for each of the schools. Be honest with yourself. I think that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well. Acronyms I forgot: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  also that during some of the most awesome times, I was too busy (or ... . Thats what we called you in high school. Everyone was afraid of the ... all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... exercise, I made a list of different kinds of classes that high school ... . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be ... year is very low; we had to turn away the vast majority of excellent ... take lightly. Of those applicants, we admitted just over 1,500 students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved what I saw - not just the content of the blogs, but also the fairly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... Wellesley. Today was our first day of GELcamp (more formally known as Camp ... -MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... science in high school, and a lot of my best friends are people I've met ... solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2018 are now available at >>>       ... of these students were academically competitive and well-matched, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents loved getting to visit me here.) MIT offers information sessions followed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes, and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  guess I won't know any of this for sure until the school year begins and I ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  almost definitely want to go to grad school. None of these facts are ... to go to grad school v. the ethics of career choice vi. conclusion ... high school with my competition poster[/caption] Of course, the high

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022