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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores. No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  are making a 40-minute detour to stop by F and M and pick me up. From ... make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Published: Monday, May. 22, 2006 By DAVID BROOKS / Nashua Telegraph At right ... Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... own office at Lawrence Academy. [Staff photo by Peter DiCampo] You can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  everyone who’s already swung by and everyone else to come. If you also want ... being recalibrated (projected to be by mid-July) excites me. School ... sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

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

  nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the ... -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print, complete, and mail the MIT Transfer Application to MIT Admissions ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  bags and took a very sketchy cab ride* to the airport. I made a quick ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  hell, I feel like everything is alright. 7:30 PM I make quinoa to eat ... pantry. They're all way too squishy, but I make myself an exceedingly well ... Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  trip to Rhode Island, a tour of their model making department (I know ... essentially decided what we're going to make. For the next month we are going to ... ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  is also the kind of song that makes you want to go back to the 90's ... . :( "Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys - This is the kind of song you ... , nevermind. I don't have to justify Dropkick Murphys. Rite of Spring by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in what makes the most sense to you. I quickly assigned each bit to ... August. I started by writing down everything I wanted MIT to know about me ... ingredients needed to make a good essay. I was lucky enough to have really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  (which you should all come to, by the way: the fun starts at 9:30 in the ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  ." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC ... to me as I filled out my college applications, making sure to include ... . At MIT, sometimes you need something other than intelligence to make

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  and surrounded by farms and forest. My extracurriculars shifted to ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  taken, just fake it to make it.  I’ve heard people say -- usually to ... I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... ’t make a specific choice when I think I need to make it, there will be a ... ’ve realized that thinking too much makes me forget about what it means to just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025