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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a ... schools that were affordable and seemed okay academically, wrote a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school ... than 170 countries that offers accurate, comprehensive, and current

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents loved getting to visit me here.) MIT offers information sessions followed ... location. Visit other schools while you're here. Boston really is a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  school crew program at the Detroit Boat Club (I was on the varsity crew ... Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... debate team or at a science fair, a test in school, or, yes, a college

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  talk to someone who has gone to school at MIT.    Past blogs about ... since these posts were written, the insights offered in these posts are ... your name, school, and contact information - we do this on purpose! The

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  who chose to commute an hour each way to attend a certain school, and ... conferences so that other schools can start similar programs - I'd say we're on ... post it here as well: ...Make sure your kids are choosing their schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  , etc.), where we wanted to be (physics professorship, Harvard business school, M.Eng, etc.), and what we feared becoming (unemployed, due to the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... buddies. We see friends we know from high school. We see friends we’ve made

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly pretty busy right?” Poor me. I had NO IDEA. Let’s run this through. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  's questions: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which ... , school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... and then put back together again”, it’s never about a school. it’s about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  learning the importance of placing school first and jobs second. But a very ... on business cards, and I even snagged a spot for an interview with AT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  going to a large school where no one knew me or my business was a little

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... Well, not during the conversation, but if they give you a business card

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  "expressed interest" in the school, and they try to use that piece of data to ... some other job he's busy with for at least the next 3 years...)

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  Hey everyone! Some people have asked if I'm still blogging (mostly my mom). Yes, I am, but I've just been very busy/lazy/boring. The only ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009