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• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  prefer to receive it, but letters without it are at no disadvantage. We ... submitted; there is no electronic version of this form. You can submit ... interviews are at no disadvantage.) If you have already interviewed with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... at that moment, I had no idea what I was arguing for, what my project ... classmates and I all knew we had to absorb and many times challenge. No, this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there or anything that is likely to need changes or edits. No need to wait ... . It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  harder to measure. Does this mean that our process is no better than ... most stock pickers and fund managers basically do no better than random ... than random chance would predict? Result: mostly, no. Hypothesis false

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  . Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one ... (i.e. no middle school, and no basket weaving class). Ideally, this ... be categorized reasonably either way -- no worries), but most seem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  . Webb went first, did a fantastic job, and then, there was no avoiding it ... , “here goes. Tack turn. No big deal.” I pushed the rudder away and pulled ... , which meant I was no longer turning! This continued for 3 or 4 tries

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  ] said, 'No it's not, it's the best idea ever!' So the name stuck.” The ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July ... - check Paddles attached- hang on, what paddles? I had no paddles. Luckily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  (really!), but I really have no better way to begin this so here goes: I ... forever. If you were doing original research in cancer which no one has done before and in which there are no "established answers," then what do you do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  has taught us that there is no problem that money cannot solve ... - and become cookie-cutter people. The essays you write are no longer ... activities that you do are no longer good enough if they aren't part of a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... : Psh, that's not so many stairs! I'm in good shape, I can do that no ... !!!!!!!" "Oh no! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to pour scalding hot oil all over

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  application and the RA application? No, the application for early action is ... early? No, not really. Other than the fact that if you are deferred you ... people, to decide whether you want to come or not. Again, there is no

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  at MIT. As a prefrosh I had no idea how political MIT was. As a ... your message out to hundreds of people. There's no specific audience with ... and you're the root of it, well, no hard feelings because everybody

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  I'm so grateful they never gave up on me. And with no further ado ... note: no matter how good you feel about your high school career, don ... and sweet. Remember, no matter how awesome you are, you're just one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have ... , making it through freshman year with no previous experience in physics, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but ... as to how all of this should be presented, but he was no programmer, and had no idea where to start. Furthermore, his budget was limited

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you ... their academic records. Pass/no record really helps MIT students quit ... committees saw when I applied to graduate school -- they had no idea that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  2nd semester, assuming there wasn't pass/no record)? and what was your ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass/no record, God bless pass/no record..."), and there's nothing quite like it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass/no ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... frat where you know no one. Yeah, don't let anybody tell you what "social

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  any good if you have no information outside the course listing ... clean the bathrooms? No, the rooms in MacGregor aren't that big -- they ... freshman? No, you don't have to find suitemates in MacGregor. All of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... ) looked uncool. Bleh. I tried to clean it off to absolutely no avail. I ... perfectly honest, there's no way I could explain it to you. Sorry. =) There

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006