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• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  , back to reading your applications... ... (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new entries recently to keep folks entertained and informed). While I was busily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... pictures to show you just yet[/caption] During the spring, I was able to get

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

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so ... test–but if you’re in a time crunch, it’s difficult to glean out the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  of the sample songs to learn about sound was performed by the MIT ... First Day. (credit to L.S. '18) I will never get tired of the wonderful ... Shetterly! From my 9.01 Intro to Neuroscience textbook, written by the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just walk out. When you’re stressed and busy it can be hard to remember why

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  me, CPW schedule right by my head. I finally just lost the ability to ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt Mc ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange ... airline miles, since I get to travel to another country during IAP for this ... Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  essay, pin them to the clothes line, and construct his essay by physically ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct us? Woman: Oh, you're trying to get to the festival! Me: Yes! Woman: Oh ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  like tickets to events or food from class fundraisers, or do your laundry ... stays as money in your account. While not entirely necessary to survive ... me. I don't register my money situation until I get to the cash

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the ... by November 1, MIT will consider your application for Early Action. At
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  Hampshire and Vermont, them being right next to each other and all. New ... decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes, all said by longtime professor Arthur Mattuck. (He's been teaching here

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... perfect, there were cool streams of glacier water to splash on your sweaty ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  through to get where they are today, but there’s something about the phrase ... telling you to explore science or chase your dreams would be like preaching to the choir, but you never know whose lives you all can change by

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be ... and gusty wind, pray your brisk Winter's walk allows a speedy arrival to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with ... drafting dots! Drafting dots, by the way, are used to mildly tape down

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  blogger to learn to swim (you’re welcome).  The day after I got to campus ... get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023