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• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... scores in the Part II, but note that we ask for "Date taken (or to be taken ... scores sent to us by the testing agencies. Please be sure to have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... , cowardice, pride), as opposed to feeling contrived for the sake of having a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  time by himself,” the woman next to me mutters. Hour 71 As we get ... my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... ’re going to have a bad time.” I thank her for the advice and ask if she has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... sports get recruited at MIT (or at other schools, for that matter), but ... , and I was lucky enough to get in!! I officially committed the spring

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  what we want to do with our lives. We're supposed to experience new ... forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Baker to hang out more and then get ready for some party hopping. Beth ... was able to go back to sleep for about an hour or so before I had to get ... . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  to present MIT to the world under new light, exposing its ... -starting people; cool ideas pop into their heads and off they go to make them into ... objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... one could be a coder and someone interesting for me to talk to at the ... (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  ) One of MITs pilot online courses for their new high-quality online learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn't think it was possible to get so close to someone through just Zoom calls

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  , Money, Money! 7-9pm, 35-225 Essential for anyone who wants to make money ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those ... -register online at web.mit.edu/womensweek/. Brought to You By: Panhellenic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... To Get Around MIT Making illustrations for the next How To Get Around ... guide "written by students, for students." You can get an idea of what it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... Academy for elementary school. I got better at English and learned how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011