Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past seven years, the average ... Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in about a month. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn ... submitted. (A little historical data: over the past six years, the average ... grades are very important, so keep working hard!) as well as a text box for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  about the paths that I could pursue for myself. And I was exposed to a lot ... GFSA, a student venture accelerator. The Deshpande Center for ... may take on a full-time research project. But for a lot of students

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  out of the program. In her long experience writing for a few different ... the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It ... begged his parents for a lab so he could do his own experiments. He adored

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  application. And if you qualify for a fee waiver, your family needs the $65 more ... the worst, and hope for the best. As the year draws to a close, start ... for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... him because he used to play for the Braves, which I'm a long-time fan of ... animations that students have also contributed. For the sake of brevity and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  appropriate for the short time span (bearing in mind that we only get a few days ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   ... wrote a strong proposal, and get time, then at some point during the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  gifts for loved ones. Don't be the kid rolling up on Christmas Day with a ... for a run. Even if the only running you usually do is away from your ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  both as a creative outlet for students interested in the culinary arts as ... (for the more scrutinizing eye, a unit step function). His career would ... tortellini on a Sunday morning for a friend, obsessing over the perfect acidity

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  could be the perfect match for a lab, and they could still reject you for ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  also asked the VC if he was available for a luncheon for incoming MIT ... . He is now a partner for Square Peg Capital in Boston, and he gave the ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  multimaterial 3D printer which I used a lot for prototyping the housing of the ... the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now before I get hosed) after the internship ended. Over the summer, we made a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... down in the grass. It was 30˚F, and there were a few stars visible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  , and for the most part is what happens. Some, however, really want a ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  ). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  0 ... ???? 5:41 Quick tips for the interview ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  , I learned a lot from this experience, and I’m excited for the work to ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007