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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... on College Confidential (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts ... flattering, sure - though depending on who you are, that Sheldon Cooper

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... make sure that YOUR name appears on the money order! Bugs Bunny, Santa ... working on that involved highly enriched uranium........that would be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  quiz bowl format features teams of students from each school competing on ... ; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... a teacher," he said. The math teacher was a great influence on his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  wrote this on Saturday night, after the decisions came out. Different ... own balance. Keep on smiling. I'll keep you in mind. :) ----Long ago ... murmurs that resembled the angry buzzing of mosquitoes on a summer day. The

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  concentration on one beautifully hand made piece of artwork, an opportunity to ... little lead pellets as ammunition. My pellets sitting on top of my freshly ... out the letters "MIT" on three separate targets and decided to shoot

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... résumé and started working on this whole "summer internship" thing. Should ... performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  . They’re pretty cute, since I had absolutely no idea what was going on, or ... that you’re not completely sold on MIT yet. Perhaps a friend of a friend ... nerds (yuck!) To be fair, this depends on your definition of nerd

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... undergrad, your social culture, in my observation, depends largely on two ... , because before college, I had no idea what was going on around me in terms

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too. On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... 'm seriously considering.) Like Jessie wrote about, the Task Force on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... buttons. 3:30 PM: Professor presses button and turns on a camera that videotapes him writing on the board behind self, putting self on camera

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by ... weBabble would be on their way to the championship. Toxic Algae had ... of fate and some bad defense, weBabble scored on Toxic Algae, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  that fact I have never been out to visit her. So, on our way back from ... German music on trains through Italy, and one of them was by the great pop ... . ---- Okay, as promised, a bonus half-entry on the Dreilпњљпњљnderpunkt. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... was just so happy to be 'home.' On a side note: Eventually this resolves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  Freddie Mercury, recorded on four separate tracks and mixed together ... liederhosen, many of whom were even playing oom-pa-pa music on tubas. Do people ... the Olympic Stadium to watch the Mexico-Argentina game on Saturday night

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  other day on CC. I really was paying attention to the game, but my feet ... MIT with a 0 on the SAT, even if you can throw a football ... do absolutely zilch for getting that "Accepted" stamp on your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... on the side. I will buy a great dane, and call him "Buffalo." I will ... 's what Sam's Mom received over ten years ago: Dear Mom, On Mother's Day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  With Hurricane Wilma bearing down on Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... South Asia on Tuesday, 25th October at 7:30pm by lighting a candle in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... optimism each week in a mediascape that often thrives on negative news ... critically and broadened my perspective on the world. I look forward to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025