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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... colleges in terms of waitlist size, usually keeping one of the proportionally ... uncertainty around yield, we decided to significantly increase the size of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... life or a mix of both? What about the professors? Are they accessible ... I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my undergraduate career couldn’t have come fast enough. The last two weeks of term

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high ... admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions ... click on "How to accept or decline our offer of admission", and complete

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... freedom to get around. They offer convenience and flexibility to fit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... the entirety of Junior year, but the program was canceled just last year ... the following week, I had an interview with the Assistant Dean of Global

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... worthwhile questions, they shouldn't overshadow the most important question of ... worth it if you spent the years unhappily toiling through a course of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically ... , after 12+5 days! I'll let pictures tell the story of this last two weeks ... required to attain 8 PE points before the end of his/her sophomore year* as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between ... optimize our engine. Here's a picture of a modified engine (from the 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  ;closed” and will not admit any additional students this year for the Class of 2017. We've seen all the wonderful updates many of you have been ... It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  summer. Professor Markus Zahn talked about the logistics of the program ... 6 students go through an interview process in the fall of their junior ... think the last part of the presentation was the most inspiring. (Although

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... , and looking at the future I saw only hazy outlines of possible paths. At

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... transcription of another protein that allows the synthesis of a certain amino acid

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016