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  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  application components are in before you contact your interviewer. Q: I've ... Part 2 once Part 1 has been submitted. Q: I've started Part 2 of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  Hey you! Yeah, you -- you're Chris, right? And you just wrote this blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... you have gone before. Ironically, goal-setting has been something that I've

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... switch pairs, and I’ve only said five words in our whole conversation. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... about the person you've become and whether or not you like it. Hearing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  kind of meditation could. If you’re looking to get free, it’s there, you’ve ... rhapsody in blue   Even though I’ve only been here for a semester, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... they do is show you've been to college.” Avoid repetition. Make friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  application components are in before you contact your interviewer. Q: I've ... Part 2 once Part 1 has been submitted. Q: I've started Part 2

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  T camPUS We've been dyeing your hair for days, and we'll keep dyeing it ... help us make it pretty! If you've already met with your adviser, come and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn ... than they’ve trained me to be a really great Spanish student. A lot of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  semester’s grind again. Speaking of semester, I’ve decided to go out on an ... university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  because I’ve only ever lived on one floor, and on that floor I’ve only ever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... Simmons hall. I’ve even seen some painted as murals on dorm hallways. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  internet. I've worked with Petey on ways to improve admissions -- or for the most part Petey has told me about ways admissions could be improved. I've

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  were graduating and staying in the area. I've now been away from MIT for ... (and conversely, what I'm NOT so good at), so I've been able to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  , that's mostly what I've been up to this summer--odd jobs on top of one of the most unique biology classes I've taken here thus far. If 7.s390 is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to brush up on my French in order to take a French class in the fall. I've ... book addict collector), but I've found some really neat podcasts from F

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  addition we've enlisted the help of a great group of current students ... ), departments, and housing. I’ve named just a handful of the events created with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Gallactica—but with Twitters. It’ll sound very, very familiar if you’ve ever ... . Internships L: Could you tell me about how this connects to some of the work you’ve ... that I’m pursuing, I’ve only done a couple of internships. I did two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  commitment as I slowly start going to the gym more frequently. I've done ... exercise in the morning. This means *gulp* waking up earlier. I've had such a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014