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• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  is, even as I write, busily processing all of the application pieces ... Please remember that January 1 is the postmark deadline for students ... the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... , straight up, but now I'm a routine of doing it every night with the others. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  from a significant portion of the group once renovation comes around, i ... consolidate the fragments of ideas i’ve considered in this past hour? can i exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream-of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn ... any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline ... 't be, but it is! And of course, the normal anxiety that comes with

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to ... with the black licorice at the bottom of the bag.   mostly 2’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... weeks, as the semester has built up, the value of checking up on people ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  Reading applications from students born after the fall of the Berlin ... approximate the motor, visual, flexibility, dexterity and strength of a person ... it isn't any fun. My bones creak and ache and I can tell when the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  -solving at the whiteboards, most of which i feel unprepared for.    6 ... math problems, which most of the time is trying random shit until it ... lot of [annotation note="check out the Reischauer, China, and Sejong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... . At the end of the summer, he pulled me aside and said, “Gabe, I know it feels like I’ve brushed off a lot of your questions about the Trail. If

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  Fraternity rush and sororiety recruitment, cornerstones of the ... , the President of Panhel and Evan Wang, the Programming and Recruitment Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the ... 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  beautiful afternoon. Last Friday marked the end of my first full week of ... the 100s of emails advertising activities at MIT have mentioned free ... about somewhere. I think in numbers. The other day, I called one of my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally ... favorite class of the semester. Why? 1. I have an awesome professor. And by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and ... premiere weeks in September, but traveling got the best of me. 5. Now that

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be ... office's own running of the bulls, only with more emoticons and Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... comedy shows. Of course, I entered the seminar lottery, and there were ... worth brownie points with the leader of a 6 unit seminar during pass

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... person. and honestly, finding these means of self-care so early in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14 ... this semester, but i thought the "most boring thing ever" was kind of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016