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• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from ... trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... application. "Tell us about something you do for fun." McGreggor and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  thing, expecting the tabs to be gone afterwards. Yet, they persist, and ... back to. Mostly, I just scroll back up to them and read them whenever I ... Oliver - the "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  driving up the whole eastern United States and realizing, standing in my ... . Getting into MIT. I will never forget when I refreshed the page, and the ... lines of, “The decisions are ready.” My heart skipped a beat, and my mom

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  graduate from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and, frankly, I ... I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this semester. A very cool HASS class. It's simply called 'Rhetoric' and we study

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  and the holistic admissions process. And while I hope that these entries have contributed some insight into how and why we do the things we do ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  BOOM! CPW is now over and dear sweet gummy bear in the sky was it ... , shower, dress, and stumble back into my room. I check my e-mails, surf the internet a little bit, and then tip over onto my bed and fall back to sleep

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... . What is CASE?  CASE stands for Class Awareness, Support, and Equality ... class disparity and more generally have a dialogue about understanding

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and ... note="Electrical Engineering and Computer Science"]Course 6[/annotation ... interesting and highly-rated classes while still hitting all the requirements

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to ... "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of ... States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... cultural match to an institution. And I think fit is even more important in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  the Institute ever since. And why should he? After graduating in 2000 with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... Bioengineering in the famed Langer Lab and his medical degree from Harvard Medical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  background: he has five academic degrees in engineering, business and ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... Verona City, USA. The university in the town is Montague State University ...   Juliet Capulet, portrayed by Chelsea R. ‘15 and photographed by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  day. Let's look back at February 13th and move on from there. Moving to ... . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of ... route, but it did stop through some major cities like New Haven and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  process get them to learn about me (action and reaction). My degree would ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  “Governing the Commons” made me think about institutions, and “Why Nations Fail ... (broadly) that I think I want to engineer and implement institutions to ... , Marxism, sociological and cultural theories, and neo-institutionalism, the seminar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  else. If you attend school outside the United States, and have teachers ... recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  in ink, and that my ID was ruined...(or splattered-decorated with ink ... ink-covered pens and people who were nice unfortunately picked them up and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... (literally and figuratively) change and moved to a full time Sloan (course 15

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010