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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  difficult decision to receive; please trust that we have done our best. Take a ... lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  developing a program for first-years focused on the personal wellbeing and ... students and renowned faculty all sharing a passion for academics, personal ... , you have a new option for helping you eat well: a fresh approach

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... time to develop the deep, genuine trust needed to take a person through ... should be easy, but it requires a level of vulnerability and trust that has

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  running the job search, asked all of the applicants for the role to make a ... placed in what we called the "forced-triple" -- a cubicle designed for two ... when I began. I have a grad degree and a grad rat. But, most importantly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  remember a few important things: A wide variety of skills are needed for a ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... alone finishing a whole pset. Sleep is important! Anyway, one day last ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  know this can be a difficult decision to receive; please trust that we ... . We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the ... informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... use as a good template for your schedule. If you don't know what to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... , and Jordan), then you've probably just made a friend for life. There

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  active in MITSFS and the Laboratory for Chocolate Science." Alvin Chen '11 ... ;ve been working for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, usually from 9am-5pm ... and software that they require. We do a lot of work for government

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

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... import, a convergence of everything that astronautics represents and ... each other. Over the weekend, however, I got a little stuck--for a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  packages over the summer and IAP Advocated for a low-cost student ... -term food insecurity Been a voice for the 10% of students that have lacked ... potatoes or sweet potatoes for 10minutes and get a solid hot to-go meal out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  see what happens. “Just see what happens, Mom? I have a plan for this ... undergraduate working towards a BFA. Looking back, that’s a nice metaphor for what ... very eloquently this summer on the life changing aspects of hiking for a

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  a pretty long day. We got to Tampa around 11AM, checked into the hotel ... MIT admissions crew together for a dinner reservation at Bern ... business. Here's a plug for Lloyd Thacker's Educational Conservancy. He

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... , people seeing each other in a trusting, positive light. The result is a ... become a role model to the bulk of the community that watches. For the past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  is to provide a late-night, work-free food experience to desperate ... for them to look like this before clicking "Go." After you click go you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... theme for EC this year was cyberpunk, I heard PATD quite a bit this ... I’d fare as a long-term host, but for now, I love it. The morning was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  kinda fun (like walking for three miles, or sticking out like a sore thumb ... cook so much, and I cook pretty healthy food! Living in a cook-for ... say that. I own that.  There’s a lot I could say here, but I’ve been

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020