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• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  anywhere (to my knowledge), which makes me sad. Yes, you get 9 units of ... likely will need, or which at least will make your life significantly easier, if you're planning to double). You can't use the elective credits

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  essay is the other significant window into your life and to who you are ... tuned! And I promise to make it yummy too, since I'll be comparing the ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  whole damn ocean with enough sloughed proteins to make every single wave ... - that's what's being reflected back to your eye. If something is white ... than or equal to $5,500 per year) towards your own tutition. You should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  lower/middle-class kids can't or shouldn't make time to daydream, or the ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  person, whether they're student, faculty, or staff, can make the choice to ... to MIT, but the extreme variety and blending of traits makes MIT really ... freedom to do whatever they want (choose your dorm, 24/7 access to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  fact, being able to shut the door, turn up your silliest music, and dance ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  couple things we want you to know as you begin filling out your application: Start by contacting your EC as soon as you are ready to schedule your ... create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  your non-native language means, I just do. Languages just make sense to ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... year of college I "wanted" to work in robotics, because they make you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school ... 't portray yourself in your application as who you think MIT wants to see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  again "Cami, you're giving up too easily." And a part of me wanted to ... 's some overarching moral point I'm trying to make with this blogpost, or ... accept your fate? Is there that point at all? Needless to say, it's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don ... when you make a home with someone: you share.) — I meant to call my mom ... eventually; they need to learn how to make their own mistakes; I won’t always

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  "listening to your body"; that we should've quit at mile 54 when things started ... , because your decision-making skills are weakest exactly when you are tired and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor ... the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of experimental writing. From Dada to 'Pataphysics and many more, we learned a lot

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  publications and websites. During the Admissions season, it is difficult to focus ... of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  not actively taking notes on it makes it hard to focus. Also, Facebook ... can do. That’s the whole point; the point is to know where your limits ... MAKE MISTAKES, because through your mistakes you will learn the most. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free ... reminders that you should all be aware of: make sure you get your financial ... helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  your toy yet?" "Um, no, should we?" "Well, you're about to pitch your ... patent." "Oh, you're right, um, ok, to an Athena Cluster!" Elizabeth and I ... this year. Hasbro would also like to thank us. Do you all have your

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... did I make regrade requests? I tried to file regrade requests as soon ... covered topics I was familiar with and I stopped needing to make any regrade

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I ... college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your ... 't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025