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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... ’s a great read. Totally transports you to NYC in the late 60s. Awesome

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on ... to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  student's career in certain fields to get bachelors and masters degrees from ... equivalent] grad school as an MIT undergrad than it is to get in from Podunk U ... presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  for the dorm, I'm on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing ... this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or ... accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to ... chance. Wouldn't want them to get jealous or anything! So tomorrow, while ... get institute holidays and have to still get our problem sets done), I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  note="and couple of ways to get to know other 2026s"]what’s next,[/annotation] so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and ... You got in…wait…YOU GOT IN!!! You might be wondering, “What’s next

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... IAP, but this break I really wanted to just chill out. Just wanted to

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  - so sometimes we work together in our living room. I also try to get out ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and ... we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... killing time in London until my flight back to Boston. Text for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say ... to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... answer, unfortunately, in 2010. While in a cab going to the airport from

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because ... really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  . It gets you in the mindset of thinking about what things matter most to ... to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... about it (I will talk more about this later); it’s one way for us to get

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to the left of "Advanced" to get to that setting). This is what you should ... right you can find layers (which I'll get to later) and artboards: You

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008