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• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... could really synthesize who i had been and what the Institute had made me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  , and hopefully someday, a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more floor space for other things."]loft[/annotation]during REX, and then write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  research on the expanding universe, and is only offered once every two years ... to enjoy all the fun activities Boston and Cambridge have to offer ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... Exam week starts, and before I know it I’ll be graduating. Where has the ... -traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 722 applicants ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 20 students. However, the four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 739 applicants ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... students from the waitlist, and the year before we admitted 40 students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  't really have much to offer. I was looking around me and realizing that the ... Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  freshman advising seminar with Professor Nigel Wilson and Senior Research Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  biology classes, I think 7.012 (offered in the fall) and 7.013 (spring) are ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... human-powered plane) and Decavitator (a human-powered boat), which were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... be just as busy and have just as much fun as Junior! Here are my ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... . It actually looks beautiful, and I might have to check out Vaduz or ... chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  emails, and even your random Facebook pokes, I genuinely became attached to you guys; and I think it's safe to say the other bloggers feel the same ... you guys - mentally and emotionally, if not physically. I remember

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008