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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... continue to study it in school. We are bringing it to Twitter. We tossed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... ...) that you feel would be helpful to the committee. We do not expect or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  scores in the Part II, but note that we ask for "Date taken (or to be taken ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes for anything you might mail in (like a fee waiver request or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... and say, “Man it sucks to have to do this paperwork or to deal with this administration or to deal with blah blah but I am damn lucky to being doing what I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not ... if you can still send in music or art or a response or Question 13, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... disadvantaged in the workplace, in social institutions, or even just in day-to ... . In other countries, issues of class divide, race, or religion may not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  friends and family, or whatever else may be keeping you from engaging in the ... necessarily, a Twitter bot) that did some kind of social or cultural work in the ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you ... taste or research in some way.” Danielle, the journalist: “What do you ... friends, or vice versa. As a corollary to #1, it’s fine to have bad taste

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  more. In hindsight, I would say I struggled to balance (or even identify ... , or grad school, or whatever it is that might allow you to enter "the ... other engineer in the country, even compared to other engineers from the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and provide shelter in rain or shine be designed and built in one week And

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  group or club. It’s important to keep in mind that while some anxious ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  for gas or idle in traffic or wait ten minutes for my windshield to ... ’m in my room. I typically end up in Next or Simmons to pset with friends ... in my backpack at all times in case I need to take an impromptu nap or

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career, and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70 ... meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine ... Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ... undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence