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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the ... Jobs was one of the most influential people in my life. Not because I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... insane concept of the seasons that do exist here in New England are just ... be on the highway, where I got to see some of the amazing fall foliage

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Prehealth Advising during the spring semester of their sophomore year. ... Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  those two things mutually exclusive?). Catch you on the East Coast ... how different the school's research philosophy was from that of MIT, I ... wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. In February! Anyway, the worst part of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... track of how many times I've gotten Chipotle this semester? The answer, by ... : laughter, dreams, and the first sunshine in spring.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  -MIT people who are still interested in the minutiae of your MIT life. My ... and enjoy the sunshine (hopefully).   Attend some classes ... dimensions of personality (the hosts fill out info about themselves, and you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  Coast. The difficulty, of course, posed by such an abundance of ... spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that ... grad school, so working really hard on it between now and the end of ... concerned about the aesthetics of various college campuses, something I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  have all the information at the same time. Or the amount of information cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... relatively narrow area of research, i will also miss the opportunities i have ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the admissions process. The interview report is often one of the most helpful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  place to do this. The planning department offers a wide array of material ... projects intersect with each other and connect with the central themes of ... would be missing out on the big picture of the city or town as a whole

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... within its floor plans. W91 later saw the installation and later removal of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the ... and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  we arrived at the snowy front gate of Camp Cody. I wasn’t expecting ... of the fourth hour of lectures, we definitely needed a change of ... hour break, and about 20 of us headed off to the local ski resort to ski

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006