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• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more ... update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don ... 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  place really like? I was there to teach a renewable energy course at ... project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was ... Armenia, which I found to be quite fitting)']Dilijan.[/annotation] A solid

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  things are unspoken, yet they say a lot, so I decided to not let ... A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to ... prospective students, to showcase life at MIT “as seen through the eyes of a boy ... Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  important than mentoring the students I teach." A relatively new name to me ... calling, who prefers to remain anonymous, insists it was a "sincere ... , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one ... easy to forget after a while. So, try to plan your schedule right. Make ... semester of your freshman year. It's a lot of memorization but it's great to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. I have to tell you, this is one hell of a team. Every year I tell ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a small ... ; You may log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  ;          ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial ... ’ve been working with artist Otto Piene + the MIT Museum to produce ... .” Return to this page at 5pm ~ this Saturday The liftoff will be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is ... , the Admissions Officers had a "mail opening party." In reality, it wasn't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  Early Action/Regular Action isn't a big decision at MIT. There's no ... -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... how to write formal mathematical proofs (as well as develop a rigorous ... , and Law After several semesters, I finally have a chance to take a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  me a while to get used to all their quirks, but eventually, W.M. became ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023