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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application ... by itself increase your chances of admission. What about new test ... Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me? At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  about 1mm away from the piece of metal at a perpendicular angle, press the ... advantage of all the cool resources Metropolis has to offer and to finally ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• 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 upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to

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

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  know that some students will accept our offer of admission while ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... recommendations for parents: Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm Come meet yours truly at

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving ... no means the views of everyone at MIT or even myself for that matter

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level. It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  during the school year. But those seven days at the end of the summer ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... the totally relaxing non-MIT parts of my late summer adventures. At a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  list of all of the events. Saturday Watch the sun set at an evening ... School at the Art Institute of Indianapolis at this afternoon reception in ... other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the ... coming. I hear that the interior of the new bathroom will be designed by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from ... better. the food wasn't too bad, and at least neither of us spent any money

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time. But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of our ring looks like, but as of last night we now have our own beautiful rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! LOOK AT MY PRETTY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  research, at least in biology, is driven by questions of cause and effect. If ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  the TA dutifully sat in a chair at the front of the classroom as Yaffe ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  rounding team at one of the VA campus hospitals, and visited the VA's Brain ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at ... home for break. Kentucky was warm and at the cusp of full bloom, though I

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  realized at the end of fall semester was that actually, all the ROTC members ... fulfilling part of their MIT experience. I had not known about ROTC at all ... of the cadets at our detachment have been able to do similar programs

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005