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• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  the college I got into. It is none of your business." And then sometimes ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  learning the importance of placing school first and jobs second. But a very ... amassed a large collection of various colorful shirts and trinkets This ... because of two reasons: 1) Nearly everything from last year's Career Fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email ... the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with my advisor to approve my classes last week, I had 60 units of classes

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... think differently. In high school, I was, like a lot of you, an academic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental ... introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  crucial that the school be clear of how the money is being used and the ... of Computing. Even though a new school provides a fantastic opportunity ... outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  "] Members of my a cappella group and my best friend from high school turning ... , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  did science fair out of personal joy rather than school mandates. The ... school, I was looking into improving the efficacy of existing antibiotics ... her life. So on the brinks of entering high school, she had a new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  below) you can apply for medical school. For example, an acquaintance of ... News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... being totally worth it. All the shadows of high school were dispersed by ... "]--[/annotation] I was sort of numb to my reality after being kicked out of school in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... wanted. MIT asks for a lot in terms of high school classes and if you aren ... school of no special importance had both been accepted to MIT! My mind

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... I enjoy outside of school. Still, these couldn't suffice for social ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... teachers) Music instructor (outside of school) An internship/job supervisor ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010