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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... you understand what characteristics they are looking for in order to ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... , but you still need to load them in your head, and that's hard. One thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... know that DUSP is home to the largest urban planning faculty in the ... to arts events in the greater Boston area, including performances

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

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... 's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might ... more). Furthermore, I am not incredibly confident in my ability to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... interview, try to be especially flexible in your availability, as your EC also

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

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more ... following: I never had to get better at bowling before, because I always used ... " and suffer without safety nets in order to learn is an idea I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  what you'd like your user ID to be (you get to pick) -- keeping in mind ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... , to be that sure of myself.” And I think in this virtual age, the free

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  me and the other interns waiting in line to get in[/caption] [caption ... immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... started work, i woke up to an email in my inbox saying that my e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... research project...or the time I spent literally ten hours trying to get a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  difficult to get into the program, because it seems like every other person I talked to at CPW was interested in this field. I just want to be sure that ... '09?" The original plan was to limit enrollment in Course 20 (Biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  and personally, and it is hard in ways that are difficult to discuss ... living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we ... compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  .com, dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, or some crossword solver website. Every once in ... would allow me to rearrange the rows in a way that would give more ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  records — and that was only last year.  According to our athletics website ... -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four ... get there. It seems to me that the villain should be frozen prior to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... getting me out of bed, among other things that the cube gets me through in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... to finding MIT people =) "It might be noteworthy that 10 people in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008