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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  , December 19, 3:14 PM EST. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... . If you need to reset your password, just go to apply

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to ... -weird. Life gets very different very fast as you go through your senior year ... disciplines, you need a master's to get competitive engineering jobs. You wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  process trying hard to impress a group of skeptical judges with your ... , please remember to be kind to yourself. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Drink water. Support your family and community. Do not compare your beginning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  getting on campus in February, I was very excited to get makerspace training ... most part, a fine time. We did struggle with getting people to turn on ... After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  hours and you get to choose your session) each semester. You're only ... staffing the ambulance- you get to make your own schedule and of course you ... the robot's functions), a human player (who gets to throw balls around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  addition to answering questions about your project, you may upload documents ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to ... Application, we ask you the questions we want to know. Imagine that you get into

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  waking up to ensure your day   gets off on the right foot? What happened ... respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... the afternoon. What are your resolutions? What do you want to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... rolls around and you're thinking "gee, I should probably send my scores to ... your application that the scores will be coming to us

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra ... spent. That after this streak of work, I’m going to crash. You hate your ... thing I have to report to old friends: I’m doing better now, I still get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  your demons than to write them away."]it's taken me days to even get ... me that is still so, so bitter that you get to move on with your life ... quietly. "hey cami i just want to check that youre okay if x and y go out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I ... to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don ... you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... prototype. The large teams must work effectively to realize this task, so ... . led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from MIT to become the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... excitement, also known as passion The ability to balance your coursework with ... person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  past week- I think you’re incredible human beings. To everyone reading this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... this! Either you get the decision sooner, or you get extended time to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  a bad day, perhaps your EC had a bad day - but don't let it get to you ... dimension to your application and also chat with an ex-MIT student about his ... to know what you're like in real life. Come on, you are more than just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  goal for your course is to develop and enhance your students’ independent ... systems relate to your learning goals * construct your assignments to align ... for your subject. If you are aiming to help students critique digital

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow ... . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011