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• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  relevant on your application, but take extra care to emphasize the aspects of ... suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I ... first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... went back to a classroom in building 4 and redid all of the midterms on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  allow me on the project. After a year and a summer of working with my ... everything alone. The thought of going up and putting my name on the help queue ... stream of emptiness that I fell back on because despite my desperate wild

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and ... is posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 2:19 PM Eastern Time ... And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  week later I spent a part of it on GTA IV. I really want to know what the ... merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make ... requirement again, we drew on our experience from this past year, when most of ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self ... satisfied. On election night, one roommate of mine asked another, “What ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous

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

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is ... our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... on the SAT/ACT, particularly the math section, substantially improves

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  impacts on us, both negative and positive. I've compiled two lists of ... rely on. Beantown. Is a favorite amongst all of crabmeats the perfect ... this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it ... group. hell, join a dance group too! add a urop and misti on top of that ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  Eden on the grass and she slept off some stress in the sun. This time of ...   In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I ... places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  all of the digital things that I do? Do not be afraid. We have hired on ... a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays ... bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost TWO YEARS. I should get a raise for that), it's Cam's thoughts on the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... the fourth Roman Emperor to complex Fourier series. I went on tours that

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  the class. On the first day of lecture, the professor called on her ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  paper I worked on the mechanics of the golf swing. I told the professor in ... night they showed the final game of the three-game set between the ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005