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• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... of EA admits from last year's 390 to this year's 522. Fear not, we have

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting slightly more tolerable, we made another playlist for y'all! Enjoy :) https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  piece for y'all about his journey here at MIT. Enjoy! When I applied to ... interesting project - to build a sound localization device (ears) for her robot ... by spending that summer setting up a computer lab for a primary school

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... (!) on North Court for the first time since fall.I went to a [annotation ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... for you. I have spoken to my friends who have been through the ... reputation for preparing you well! Also, you have to take the Medical College

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another ... and CPW--if you'll be on campus for CPW and want to meet up, email me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there really is no time like IAP for doing those things you never seem to find

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  graduate school applications amidst the back to school drill. For my survival ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who ... by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to put into practice ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet you all! I’m Selam, the newest new blogger, and I’ve just joined the ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free ... over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... something to personalize their room, and they're all very creative in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016