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• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... School of Engineering at MIT. Wow, huh? Maria, a longtime elementary ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  . Throughout the past few months, our team has designed a basic prototype of our ... of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  soliciting design submissions until Saturday, July 9. What is the benefit of ... As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really ... ’s cool. I started worrying sophomore year of high school, and definitely ... school, so I didn’t have a point of reference. I was an immigrant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  design”, the advice of someone who just happened to be hanging out in the ... was a Monday puzzle and one of the clues was “MIT’s business school ... and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  design through a variety of interactive lectures, awesome design projects ... at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  financial aid offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of ... . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... , along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  aid offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  , Literature of Melville and Toni Morrison, Interactive Museum design at Harvard ... competition, Sloan business school, etc.) but there is a bit of a chasm from lab ... I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  put a great amount of thought into each design and her passion for art ... where MIT students teach middle school girls and nonbinary students basic ... on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety ... Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  2024. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission ... . Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large state school environment. Sure, you can find a group of equally smart ... recommendations is one of the biggest factors for getting into graduate school, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... these, though, are MIT. There are so many facets of this school. And there ... ’d become more of what I wanted to be — not my senior year of high school

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... design: ❌ User interface design: 🤢 Github: 👍 Working in teams: ❌ 2/9 (well, more like 2/7 since 5 & 6 are more design orientated). Good

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  high school student into a fledgling engineer/designer, simultaneously ... Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  represented across multitudes of schools and from all over the country. We wore ... part of it. ** The binoculars-shaped LA office was designed by Frank ... signed up to be part of a group of Googlers giving high school kids a tour

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017