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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  gives three lines for a response. I job shadow a Pediatrician on a regular ... not much I would rather be doing with my time. However, I am afraid ... the "fun" question in large part to determine whether or not an

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

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester ... a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for ... as our scrawny nerd bodies at the time. I am too tired to keep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss ... ? The last time I wrote, our office had just received some really bad news ... .) This year was Stanford's turn to host, and they did an amazing job - big

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  nice to celebrate being done with one part, and for taking time out of ... actually really [annotation note="read: difficult and time consuming ... you want to film. Format it to look like the scripts you see online, so

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  entering classes that are part of my major now, and they feel that way too. I ... online with the Big Mouth Conjecture. Finally, I have Chemistry (5 ... . I am excited for this part because my high school chemistry was a lot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... know this at the time, but apparently, the MIT Game Lab was collaborating

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  time - already had jobs, and were already starting to talk about getting ... time I sort of felt the (partly self imagined) peer pressure of not ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  my time off MIT campus and am only 3 units above the credit cutoff to be considered a full-time student. I'm busy, but also happier than I ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  job interesting. However, I once did answer a question like the A/Foo vs ... don't believe this -- often times people will accuse me of lying, that ... -- that's Daniel's job (and he's darn good at it!). We would like more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... significantly much more time to figure out. Regardless, I've been keeping busy with my two classes and three jobs. I realize I don't really talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps ... questions on this topic until that time, as many of them will likely be

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  quiz is separated into two parts -- a written section and an online ... This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... for me during some really difficult times in high school. I really lost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your ... simple as "to be," to as specific as "a part of a celebration in which a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  really prioritized making money (jobs) and spending time with friends over ... 20 times."]Many people change their minds on what to major in ... and major introductory classes. It'll then be easy to dedicate time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  release decisions as planned - at noon (Eastern Time) on Saturday March 17 ... process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... each other. At the time, Facebook was pretty basic and wasn't even open ... the time -- this is before there was such a thing as the App Store

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…

  

  The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world ... returned to normal. Maybe I'll actually have some time to blog next week ... ... it's almost over! This time next week you'll be celebrating the fact

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  letters as soon as the official release date(s) and time(s) have been ... online. Decisions will not be released via email or snail mail. Following
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023