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• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  doesn't teach you in a class) A coach (who is not also one of your ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How ... , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... to a second round of waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  In review — it’s been a good year. In reverse-chronological order, I… full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about ... having a complex system in my head, understanding one part of the puzzle so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... hypothesis Metaphysics of saint thomas aquinas Is the mind a machine Kolmogorov ... in? Fainting Goats Nomadic Cultures of the World How Tea is made Why

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  anime episode--and there is a challenge to managing that time in the best ... 's quite another to actually attend a con and see what the fandom is like in ... having one or a small group of "authors" or "creators"; we associate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  , In May, I got an email titled ‘A letter from the past.’ There is an ... dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  out sorbet (is there a lot of sorbet in Harry Potter?) Unfortunately ... know, it's a bold blog structural experiment, but just have some faith in ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... little, not really in a dangerous way or anything, but just by being ... becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... being totally in control of that process. All great games come from a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  spent in lecture. I will admit that this is a relatively low number ... , not realizing that the author is terrible at presenting.   In ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... was in china and in my time zone. “the language barrier is so painful bc

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many blog readers in this picture that the probability of your inclusion is ... . Just so you know. Concurrently present in the room was a group of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  proved that computers are incapable of solving all problems (in fact, they ... -academic matters in an informal atmosphere, often communicating on a first-name basis ... YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  students in 1971, 25,000 enrolled, and this at a time when the total student population in the UK was only about 130,000. The Open University is currently ... helps them identify the species in the picture. Occasionally, a community

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  shift other work around 2.671 in different ways each week. There is a lot ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I ... year, 21L.504 is focused on race and identity in American comics. It's a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023