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• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... career workshops, networking dinners, graduate school panels, dinners with ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  you until 2029 (2006 plus 5 years -- when I'm done with grad school ... applicant whose parent(s) attended the school. Some schools give preference to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  and my two high school best friends around on New Year's and b) came to ... mom working at Draper, if he didn't have to do that pesky school thing during the school year and could work 40 hours a week all year. He has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student ... ' educations and created the school. There's a private dining room off the main

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school ... . We're hoping that lots of other schools will begin blog programs so ... every school that interests you. Some of you have written to ask about

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  to make sure she takes advantage of her new school's resources. ''I ... students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... the US apply to colleges during their final (senior) year in high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social ... and highly-regarded liberal arts schools, fly a bit below the national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... discovery and invention. And despite the Times' criticism of high school ... and more students are becoming involved with research at the high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Don't slack off in school. Your senior ... high school. Take some time to smell the roses. Not the same few ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a ... school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  admissions decisions, grad school admissions decisions, job application ... Mural. I wish I had done this more in high school. Watch a sporting event ... Boston. I watched and cheered for MIT and some high school friends this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  was I, someone who struggled in high school science classes, going to survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... of being allowed anywhere near this school. In a sort of last attempt

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  grad school and a full-time job, and gave us suggestions for resources ... Mapping: The Case of Urban and Rural Secondary Schools in Rwanda." "Semi ... . One girl explained to me that she's not going to graduate school because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school? Well, the obvious things…twelve months without school is fun, right

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  nine high school students with their materials science research projects ... success after my deferral would help with getting into my dream school. I ... finally showed up, and I actually got admitted to my dream school!!  I WAS

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just ... seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  financial aid differed from what I got from similar schools and why that makes ... tuition aren't considered during the admissions process. In high school, I ... poor, if they went to an expensive private school, if their parents are

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  to a beach day after graduating high school (complete with a sand ... middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024