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• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... and the students I meet are inspiring in so many different ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus ... ="attachment_78721" align="alignnone" width="300"] The coaster we're in the process of ... it isn’t the sort of lecture-based history course you encounter in high

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you

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

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

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in ... March 2004 in the Boston Globe. After you read it you'll know why I love

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up ... stop for lunch, and lots of practice in Spanish conversation, I soon ... most of my program members in Barcelona, I find myself in need of my own

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last few days... ------------------------------------- How will I know if ... be released? I don't know the exact date yet. Sometime in mid-March. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  anyway. Four. This week I was unable to pay attention in any of my classes ... down. In the past few days I have spent most of my afternoons just lying ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... mentoring program called BioMatrix, which I have been a part of since freshman ... UROP. I work in the BioInstrumentation Lab and I’m trying to write up the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be ... .mit.edu. ------------------------------ Hang in there - only a few more days of waiting! ... Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  of people and feel slightly less unnerved, but can't properly see the ... you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... the stages of mitosis when all you can remember is 8th grade geometry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... take from the waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I know some ... numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be admitted, in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is “The Photos of Freshman Spring” and not “HEY CHECK OUT THE $1000 I JUST ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much free time, I don't feel like doing anything other than admire the art in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long ... knee-deep in orbital theory and photoelectron spectroscopy, and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  a class in every department so that's kind of cool. When I first ... this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you ... in school. I don’t have grade updates because: my school doesn’t do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  , and one day I found myself walking out of class across Killian Court to ... Not these guys, I hope. Hopefully, instead you'll call these two ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006