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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I ... , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  easter eggs in the animation! ;)"]really cool.[/annotation] I can’t think ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you can. I hope you will.   ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... effectively for the betterment of humankind. We can’t wait to welcome them to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and why I was in town -- as if following a script -- and then asked me what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where the food trucks are usually parked when I began wondering where the food ... listening to "Pop Goes The Weasel" play over and over again? And so I came up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  out. Earlier in my career, I remember once asking a senior colleague ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  something that helps other people, you can't just tinker in your dorm room ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  misformatted, you can mail in a correctly formatted version. Regular Action ... countries). I have a few updated notes for applicants in these countries. For ... date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That was really kind of terrible form, I know. But Ben and my mom are conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... guesswork out of what's in each section by providing drop down menus with

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  can’t be happening… you try sprinting in the other direction, with blood ... , I CAN’T FINISH IMPLEMENTING THIS EXPERIMENT IF I CAN’T TYPE. Your nth ... ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!”  “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in ... France coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... and the students I meet are inspiring in so many different ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate ... , Elizabeth, and I started spending weekends in the NMC together, recutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  , recruiting the class of 2015, etc - but you can bet that in eight months I ... Event in Atlanta... Last weekend, I attended the Championship in Atlanta. Though I attended primarily in a private, rather than professional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  . "well, what about having it online?" a pause. then: "i can book you in ... goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  looking at the link), so I was somewhat skeptical. But I am nothing if not supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “ ... promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008