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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand (which, thanks to a guy named Ohm, means you'll die). Your best bet is to ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in ... committee. More likely though, it is due to my sluggish 40-something metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  ’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably ... guess my point is - all of you heading to MIT soon, GET EXCITED 'CAUSE ... just have two other relevant things to say- 1) Seriously don’t get caught

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  international applicants, and I want all of you and your counselors to understand ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  mostly for me to get information on the role rather than anything on their ... , it wasn’t hard to get puzzle team or the art director, as both the ... puzzles. Importantly, we had to start getting in contact with [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  idea that you have to get out of the building and really understand ... to include the people you're trying to help in the design process ... 's important to remember that being an engineer doesn't preclude your ability (or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  to wait before reading your application. We will fully review every ... -258-8304. Please be patient, as materials take a day or two to process. Now, to get ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade ... opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... to be done. By contrast - but keeping the military analogy - here at ... get 45 minutes of devoted, leisurely analysis by the entire office. But

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

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... things from scratch, from food to clothes to what you’re reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  Hogwarts, students actually get to do practical work with potentially ... it hard to speak your mind. I'm pretty devoted to being part of the ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think ... . To anyone reading this, it gets lighter. I will give you a short ... getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  introduced this post afterall. ANYWAY #6. Get Junot Diaz to sign my book ... Junot Diaz and I am going to get him to sign my book and holy moly I am ... . I thought it'd be fitting to get my book signed for my high school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... better way to validate your acceptance to tech school than to read and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... engineering project. Important words to live by, and with that I'll wish ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or ... Friday 11/6/20 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions ... immensely. Reading journal papers definitely took some time to get used to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial-aid-specific questions and unfortunately I'm not equipped to answer them - please send them ... the financial aid tracking portlet in your MyMIT account. If you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006