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• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel ... million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition

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

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete ... excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test ... go through the Athena maintainers. So...in addition to all of those

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... from students with something to report. If you're in a school that ... any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in bullet

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . Timeliness and preparation are the keys to success said no one in my family ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  shelter to donate the proceeds to and, in less than two weeks, enough ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  regular action process. More on that in the weeks to come. Out of fairness ... in their applications to other great schools. Unfortunately, I suspect ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

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

  welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  available in your application portal in late January and should be completed ... completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... in units of XBox 360s (a trip to Istanbul? that's like, 9 XBox 360s ... college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go ... I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist, and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be