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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem."]"The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  your Part 2 (thank you for doing this in advance of the deadline ... of your opportunities, not just in math/science but also in the rest of life. So we will evaluate you within the context of your opportunities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a ... taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... out of the belief that MIT students, regardless of their field of study ... GPT. The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here ... applicants who are not offered admission. I know that the term "rejected" is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... 've figured out the puzzle-- maybe now I will have a shot of being admitted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... Judith to the shores of our destination. As our ferry cast off from Point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  colleges outside of the East Coast. We went to LA, talked to Caltech, Wash ... In another instance of historyposting, we'll look into the history ... different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... importantly, there’d be the inevitable background static of loneliness, anxiety ... because a lot of the “college experience” media that I consumed skewed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... you used that as an essay prompt. She's of the compassionate sort. Here ... theme of this next piece from second grade: Behind the Couch I like to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Financial Aid. The last thing that may be an issue of going away from home ... truly am. Allow me to share some of the things I did learn though! Maybe ... learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may ... available. ECs typically use the email address you provided on your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... shotgun house in the Bywater, soaking up the sunshine and warm wet air ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging ... past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009