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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  another dream about the portabella mushroom burgers last night. I made a ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very ... not get to draw Beth R.F. '18 and Crystal W. '18 properly. Here they are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  put on a strong front to avoid feeling the disappointment of the ... in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... rejected from MIT, but went on to become themselves and do interesting things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn't accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your ... and processed, we will add it to your application as a placeholder until
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is perfectly positioned to shine through the narrow opening between the heel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  -post-finals-limp-noodle lethargy aside with a song. Not just any song - a chemistry song. On the last day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... - freshmen are temporarily placed in a dorm, then given the choice to relottery ... and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... bummed out anyways. pset 0, which was supposed to be a warmup, very nearly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... 'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  calling new students and chatting with them about MIT. I've participated in ... is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form ... opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has occurred since
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... feeds on our suffering. Hey, it's MIT, you need something to feed on your ... there's not enough suffering for him to feed on. Once term starts, he

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story ... the downs. I am glad I got to be a blogger over the last two years, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a ... a central, open-source, online hub that high school students look to ... near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The ... specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  a gene is because of our newfound reliance on computers to find them ... for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT ... grabbed a program to read while waiting for the lecture to begin. That

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  working to establish a Standing Committee on Investment Responsibility that ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions ... what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006