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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  show up with a check in hand asking how much it will cost," she says ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... intensity of the admissions process and constant news reports warning how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  , experiencing it for myself gave me a deeper understanding for how much it truly ... shortly after I left).  I can see how it’s the little moments that keep ... by lush, pseudo-Scottish foliage and location tagged it “Scotland, UK

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  criteria, whether it is the very first or very last application read. There ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... missing documents, as it may slow down our ability to process the documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year ... choose one place over the other, let me know... It happens to the best

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... about Med School A's demonstrated commitment to diversity amongst its students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  about why "hard tech" startups are hard, and why they're still worth it.  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and is the third of its kind. Its main focus is to see how children ... have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  . She’s a good mom; she understood. But then it was just me and a group of almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out ... started looking for a house. It sucked, definitely one of the more stressful

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how high it was going to go, we were kind of just like... Well, not ... It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT ... later?). My roommate also just proposed that we figure out how to simulate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip ... sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  Every once in a while something so noteworthy comes along that it ... MITAdmissions home page or because I just like seeing my own face, it's simply ... . Hasbro is awesome, they care a lot about what they do, and it was fun to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  bored of the laundry list of musical accolades, so it was refreshing - and ... Longy, and their height ratio was about 1:2. It was a very strange ... my friend Davie '12 (who was also at the concert) put it, he had three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  , shoving it in my pocket, so I couldn't be identified while I was Food ... looked back again, realizing it was me. "Chris!!" she cried. "What happened ... , shameful tale only to communicate how good these ribs are. They will make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... struggles, and memories translated into narrative prose, and discuss: what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be ... inexperienced and mostly did experimental work, it looks like I'm going to start ... professors for the students selected for this program. It's the first year that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  ", for its final goth night before it leaves its long-time Central Square ... achievements, it is responsible for the Book Exchange, the Ride Board, and the ... about it. I suspect it's because we mostly get new members by telling our

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  long time, but it did make the conference a little more interesting. The ... applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly less hectic) season, but it allows some time for deep thinking about what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your ... cues, or what you think they said remembering an event only because it ... conversation for no reason opening a fridge immediately after closing it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019