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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  , the transition depends greatly on the rigor of your high school ... much harder on yourself, depending on the level of the intro class that ... from home, where all of a sudden you are faced with a whole new set of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  on gyroscopes, gas theory, and Gauss’s law. Gyroscopes make up one of ... ’ve done. The people at Lichtenbergschule thanked us in so many ways! On ... Inside of Merck On Thursday, we walked into Lichtenbergschule and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... tournament, where all D3 schools in the nation set their eyes on the prize of ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... first two terms here. If you get a 5 on both parts of Physics C, you get credit for 8.01. Nobody knows why you need a 5 on the E&M portion of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted ... can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on ... . There's a pretty big stack of folders on my dining room table. Just how ... can really focus on your application. Most of the people in our office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not ... on behalf of the Boston Parks and Rec."]Santa[/annotation] were brought ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  questions it raised sent us deep into the Internet, doing research on the history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some

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

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  hundreds upon hundreds of pieces based on artistic masterpieces. The best part of the tradition however was starting a puzzle on New Year's Eve and ... on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... I'm working on identifying the genetic basis of various tuberculosis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... speeds and create all sorts of exotic particles. Those new particles don ... , which themselves decay, and so on. Detecting the "signature" of one of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... the MIT Infinite Fashion Magazine A lot of friends on some strange ... a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2023. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... chess — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... robots (and that I'm in now- more on that later). As part of our final ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  stress i felt last year, it would be a lot of stress. it’d be bordering on ... find ways to take care of yourself and ease the stress, whatever that ... i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... WARNING WARNING!!! Physics content ahead! If you're afraid of physics, well ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  other ESP chapters after they went on to grad school. As of now, UChicago ... nutshell, if you take away the nights of tooling in deserted locales on MIT ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the ... ,[/annotation] but hopefully that will also help people discover new music too. And, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  grades for these courses instead of looking at an SAT II score?" I'm not on ... opinions of every adcom on the matter. Not true - at least at MIT. Any of my ... 't tell you. This sort of hair splitting is certainly not on our minds when

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006