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  .[/annotation]We hope you'll get a good sense of the MIT community and if it might be a ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that “MIT is hard to get into, and ... like : As part of getting to know MIT better, all first-year students are
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Academic foundations

  are required to take (or get credit for) two semesters of calculus
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... ! In the opening moments, Marc Abrahams (the man behind the whole Ig ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... logical fallacies, how James Baldwin crushed William Buckley in a debate in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... 'd regard both equally, because while 22-year-old me has the diploma, the 18 ... college and early adulthood. Others get absurdly fortunate and find a home

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  becoming.[/annotation] And after bloggers receive their diplomas alongside ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... write something. My secret mental goal was to try and get at least seven

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  , if I was successful enough at the former. I would get a UROP at the ... prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  and journal and plan read a little bit, daydream a little get to work ... never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the ... bread.” James Baldwin “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation ... ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... somewhere that gets it." Caroline '17 (Alpha Chi Omega) - "By the time Pi Day ... 't let it break you down. Don't let yourself be defined by where you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit ... -come, first-serve basis, and there are a few that get snatched up right away. i think i was still half-asleep from getting up too early while i was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... Chris P. SM ‘13 getting his Master’s in Comparative Media Studies. The ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  one, you can get one. One night, you're getting ready for bed when you ... professor or lab doing work that looks cool, and get in touch with them. I ... that you won’t get a response to your e-mail (more on this later), you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  Baldwin. James Baldwin is everything. I brought this book with me everywhere ... -Nehisi Coates told me a few years ago, "that James Baldwin is the baddest dude ... Baldwin--even if we don't know it." And then, in case clarification was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... and was feeling pretty down. I was so confident I’d get rejected, I didn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... . Things started getting named after it, like this 2009 teaching guide called

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , you get the picture. Whenever I interact with Nora, she smoothly ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005