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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it ... waiting (not scrolling on my phone or talking to someone, but just existing

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... terribly scary thing to plant in the mind...Because we tend to act on it. So ... . When I first came to America in 2000, I literally sat in my room all day

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  life or how much you'd learn in each class. There is so much learning ... committee, plan to blog about this sooner or later…) But even if we just look ... classes. Only the parts that are relevant to your job, or that you use semi

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... pretty emotional. To those of you who joined me in the moment of silence ... local MIT alumni and to connect with their interviewer. In Miami-Dade, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... mostly at ease talking to strangers in-person. But now we have “Meet the

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  came to their rehearsal and got in without an official audition or having ... stay in all three groups, I finally chose to stay in MITSO simply because ... play in every piece, so I don’t have to go to the entire 7:30-10pm

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... tumorigenesis in yeast cells. To translate from Biology-ese, I'll be researching ... rate of yeast. Basically, we're trying to guess what gene or genes cause

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... in Science at MIT was finally released to the public in 1999 (referred ... as established committees to examine the status of women faculty in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research, travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  or inspiration to have anything to say. But ah well, so it goes ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... to people all the time who get burned out in classes because it just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino ... in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... Studies, Writing and Humanistic Studies, or History?" When you apply to MIT ... about deciding whether to apply for MIT or just dont. One of my main

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt ... to access our automated username recovery or password reset systems

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  forced to recreate all the movies in the store, or "swede" them. "Sweding ... improv show in Boston, or having a talent show/karaoke/dance party). Not ... , though not necessarily from film) to participate in the Michel Gondry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... issue of class size versus # of applicants - but in the end you have to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance or the ApplyWithUs site

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... you understand what characteristics they are looking for in order to ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... year and a half with that goal in mind, but I seem to be at a brick wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  .042, or in regular-speak: "Mathematics for Computer Science". It. Is. SUPER ... math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with ... check out the OCW course here or the current course here. In fact, the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014