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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide ... This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the United States to conduct information sessions. This week, there will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks ... residents yesterday. I feel compelled to note here how AWESOME EC is. If I ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff ... how to - literally - solve the world's problems. This day and the ... remember playing the MITSO concert to a sold-out Kresge. Figure 13. How I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how ... what course you take, MIT teaches you life lessons like how to learn and how to persevere in the face of overwhelming odds and how to find self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there ... students to know how I felt, how marvelously physics displays itself in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you ... : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a ... it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us additional information when they apply to MIT. (Other options include Music

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... inside was water unless it was obvious otherwise. It's annoying to wash

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over ... ’re excited to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some ... completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work this morning the grip literally melted to my bike gloves. 2) Vacations ... ) Blogger Application 2010 All current MIT undergraduates are welcome to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  need to learn how to cook, and I still have new music to discover, and I ... time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... 's what led me to see life the way I do: The world isn't just something you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  "]forgot[/annotation] how hard this was until I had to go through it again. Writing is hard ... ."]friend[/annotation] what I'm thinking. Considering how much writing I've been doing, and to ... ’t mention how physics believed light to work at the time, didn’t explain ideas

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  to evil Kermit. It doesn't matter how many times you click that refresh ... I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I feel like I learned a lot about how to live this summer. I am so much closer to having the answers regarding what I want to do, and how I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  kept piling on, or how i thought giving myself large lists of things to ... life more stressful, or how even as i tried to discover new kinds of ... meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021