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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... 's and 5's on all tests. I'll pause here to add that I frequently saw ... spots and 70% of the pool has great numbers, your pool is going to have

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... hard on the stack of previous samples I was holding. To my surprise and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  class, we've been divided into groups to work on a film project that will ... on campus, you can learn how to feed film reels into cranky old ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on ... working on the psets, to the point that they were sometimes the highlight of ... I think that's pretty cool I miss seeing the red on your face when I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... -me is that i choose to be; the only reason i feel the urge to focus on ... kept piling on, or how i thought giving myself large lists of things to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  upped my game and suspended my ring on a branch, right next to a spider ... need to tweak it a little depending on who’s asking the question (future ... return to your seats.] By the way, the alum at Muir Woods also mentioned

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the ... attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger ... somewhere...on a drop form. And only because he used to be my academic advisor

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  things to blog about most will have to wait. But this couldn't. John Chow, who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo ... videos on the Internet of him and his yoyo, on the yoyofactory (his sponsor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  decision yet, I’d encourage you to go out of your way to form a concrete ... were already fading. If academics are at the crux of your decision, go to ... , professors and anything you can think of; we are more than happy to answer your

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your ... Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  . However, when you work, you work from 9 to 5 (depending on where) and when ... like go to New York, or go to the beach, things like that. However, for ... on understanding the balance. I started doing things that I used to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on ... our automated system to reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the ... I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... check the MIT directory to get a preliminary idea. If your first name or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... as testing, what your teachers say, etc., in order to understand your
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned As students pull their hair, proclaiming “IHTFP!” With your high ... In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... touch," Kreminski continued. New to the US, he blazed a path ... special program that teaches new immigrants how to speak English. In his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  backstroke, do we? No, you definitely don't have to swim on your back. The rule used to be that you could swim the last lap on your back if you wanted to ... yards on your front. 2. Dan asked, wait, so do you bring everything to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  are supposed to be on vacation, but whatever. The exhibits were pretty ... recommend checking it out on your way into or out of Berlin, if nothing else ... DID YOU KNOW? Conservative pundit Ann Coulter once described on a VH1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... going to classes. my a cappella group recruited three new members. i ... to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017