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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  applied, as you might recall, because I applied out of spite.) It's a little ... Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  , regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more ... her SATs. In the fictional world of "The OC," colleges might have quotas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  , Class of 2005, Course 1 (Civil Engineering) Favorite things about MIT: interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any ... 't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of ... January 4, when I returned to campus after winter break. *The TA of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Art offerings. Best viewed with a clover food truck sandwich in hand, of ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  people tell me that math is important in learning computer science (drawing ... amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... pictures. But some of our cruft are better at words and cameras than me, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my humble opinion, the world is comprised of two types of students. Student

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006