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• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  Action (sorry for that minor inconvenience).  If you were scheduled to ... for EA consideration.  And we continue to be flexible with all of ... website?  mitadmissions.org is now "responsive," meaning it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  Internet rather than on your personal computer. Think "Dropbox" and even ... prices were super expensive. There were no "personal computers" and so in the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  number of requests for college recommendations in past years. He said that some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to ... interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... mit.edu domain, to make it easier for students to search?" I would like ... applications have you (personally) read so far? How many more do you expect to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  commonly award credit for advanced coursework because we prefer to make sure ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to ... person just for the heck of it and then have a party where they serve food ... studying for the MCAT, the next great obstacle between me and medical school

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  form has fields for you to report your coursework and grades. This is ... . And we're only looking for this from students with something to report ... grades, no text. For example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "B

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... [annotation note="I have failed as a 5 foot tall person"]low enough to the ... had to walk several minutes to find a green place for him to disembark

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  began to appreciate Charlie Brown for the masterpiece that it was. A ... Christmas means to different people. Wild for television at the time ... on its own), and the Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is my go-to for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  city I am learning to love tolerate. I'm living by myself for the first ... for very cheap. They release online at 9am and you can get them two ... other interns and I decided to get rush tickets for a Saturday 1pm showing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  -purposefully buy extra clothing for a reason to go downtown (to return it). Results ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... freshmen’s mess to thank for that. (H)ULU: alphabetically, it’s a stretch, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  wendy’s for dinner with friend 2 8:30 pm – ran home to change for the next ... … had a BLAST! 2:00 am – walked back to MIT. Stopped at 7/11 for a snack ...   One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation ... those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... App essays, or gearing up for the MIT regular deadline. Wherever you are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... requirements for getting licensed as an architect, which is what 1) allows you to ... afterwards to actually qualify for licensure."]accredited[/annotation] B

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  time to read it. Turns out, I’m still the same person that grew up on ... love letter to New York? I was hooked. So hooked, even, that I waited for ... living, breathing evil–Jemisin’s writing style made it hard for me to stay

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  's not 10:30 AM; it's 10:28 AM. We didn't invent clocks for you to be wrong ... class might have been cancelled." After waiting for her emails to load on ... we part ways. I head over to the Forbes Family Cafe for lunch, where I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  people out to Rumney, New Hampshire.  We were all extremely excited for ... excited for the adventure, and drove up Sunday night to Rumney, New ... could stop at the top of the waterfalls to eat our lunch and relax for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... kept for nostalgia value) My pictures (mostly nice desktop

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012