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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  haunting. After Loomis, I headed down the various parkways towards New York ... . The meeting went well - lots of questions at the end, so we were there ... , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  national average). From there he went to a New York law firm, then to the NHL ... one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  ice. Coincidentally, right after I returned to the US, the New York Times ran an article on shaved ice in New York City (close, but no cigar ... For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion of the publication of his new book (!!!), Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... at MIT… When you think of competitions at MIT, the first thing that ... at a specific type of competition — athletics.  We have 33 varsity

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... MIT, at least with your scores and exhaustion of the math curriculum. However, you should try to take some kind of physics if you can, if not at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... 's equally possible to find these things, and happiness, at other universities ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I ... joke that maybe still exists at MIT: "Our tests are like, 'The density of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a ... .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this ... another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  Fisher v. University of Texas back in 2015 (brief).']amicus brief ... of precedent allowing colleges and universities to consider race as one ... science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a ... taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Public Policy, arguably the most useful Political Science class offered at ... new subjects. “Essay season” replaces “midterm season.” Instead of a ... con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  hallways. He tells us about one of his musician friends living in New York at ... , Maine; Washington, D.C.; and New York City. I’ve taken hundreds of photos ... in other environments. five. At the last rehearsal of the program, Bill

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  the day. Better yet, I had two weeks of days like this before helping at ... .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... 's nothing wrong with New House - plenty of great people live there. It just

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  received other great offers of admissions from very good colleges. So you too ... As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006