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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT ... single most impactful academic experience in high school, so it informed a ... research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  , and more than 1000 high schools; together, they constitute an incredible ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... and delivered them to companies and my school's Board of Trustees. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT, you know, looking at different schools. I figured, OK, Massachusetts Institute of Tech, Technology, is a good technical school. Math and science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is ... with the Sloan Business Club & became social chair for said club

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so ... large schools, more than one EC may be assigned. But most ECs are assigned ... you--a couple of days at least before you begin to worry. They are busy

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... specifically for high school students who are interested in learning more about ... conferences so that other schools can start similar programs - I'd say we're on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... similarly-priced plans offered by Cingular and T-Mobile, and gives you free ... to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  but me. (My high school had a medical magnet program that I was enrolled ... me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... (now five) classes I needed to add for the degree. I still don't want to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting ... in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... doing research mentioned that his son visited schools for free during his senior year. “Good schools do it,” he told her, so she googled it, learned

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... of med school, and starting to agonize over which one of these to ... you guys to interview. I never used Skype in high school, but I think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between ... [/annotation] because they do not attend schools that offer advanced coursework, cannot ... also shows that good grades in high school do not themselves necessarily

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be ... each one was, I can only offer you this news, which has me excited beyond

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... schools may all know what they're doing, where their classes are, and at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  Sloan Business Club! I didn't go to any recruitment events for SBC ... rejected by them, teehee. Essentially, I wanted to join a business club because I wanted to find a way to explore my interest in business with a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  diploma and smiling while my mother took a photo, opening the diploma book when my sister said “show the diploma!” and looking on in horror five ... had been offered, but when it came time to commit, I had a strong

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011