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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  -generated censorship. It's only a few pages in a truly massive tome but always nice to see your name in print.     On Friday I flew to DC for a ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• 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 ... rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... asked him to film a 14-part television series this summer on global

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  accepting around 20 students. Obviously with a selection process that rigorous, we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We ... applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  staircase in a particular innovation corridor — visitors respond to our ... this year, i live in a dorm called east campus on a floor called ... many times we tell them, there’s always a few people who don’t seem to

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  pleasant surprise. Plus, I volunteered to be a lab assistant in 2.00b: Toy ... . I've been dabbling in guitar for a while, maybe it's time to do some ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat ... the only one standing in the way of a dry and happy audience and the ... . I would like to think it is a short and shriveling twig casting a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ... 've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... we don't have a strong expectation in the first place). But this could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway ... to a medlink. medlinks are student liaisons with mit medical. i might

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to ... in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017