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• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a fulfilling busy, rather than one laced with sadness or inadequacy. Those

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  perfect was the school shooting that happened the same day on the outskirts ... , USACO is the best program for high school students interested in pursuing ... ) leaves off, offering students the opportunity to do some real, high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs ... that MIT is not one of those big football schools where thousands of fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... , research, and infrastructure across MIT's five schools, there is a strong

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... , broadly speaking. I was drawn to CMS/W for my own graduate school experience ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  school offers. (let's face it - as "great" as Harvard is, you can ... by far in high school was AP English Literature. When our Lit teacher ... in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... enroll at another school before May 1. If you're a transfer applicant: The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs, grad school ... -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  : over 1,100 high schools are represented amongst our admits. Every day at ... unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  school taking an art history course when I pass by Calder”s Big Sail on the ... Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... school, I learned a lot, both about my clubs' topics themselves (#Classics4

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a ... semester was the first time that D-Lab: Education was being offered, and I ... high school. It was my first project-oriented class, and I was really

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013