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• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry ... way to fill this out. Do your best to place things where you think they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... informed the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  I came to MIT. I didn't expect to be playing as much music here as I ... the humanities here at MIT? Do you want to be profiled here? Does your neighbor want to be profiled here? Just email me at ask-oasis [at] mit [dot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do ... , and there will be ample space in the application to explain any issues
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it ... ?" There are signs all over campus telling people to wash hands, be clean

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As ... directly sent from colleges/universities? Would they find their way to our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  interestingly organic that way. I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to ... still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What ... at MIT?” To be honest… IDK either, it kinda just happened; but  Maybe it’s meant to be.    Hi y’all! I’m Wide Tim, a beaver named Tim

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  pot will be controlled by a PIC that will also monitor temperature and ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on applications right now!" Yes, have to be working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their ... drawing and tell the machine exactly how to make your part by defining the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT ... For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  Hall, the dorm that's set to be controversially demolished over the next ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a natural by-product of following your passion. The people who are most remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Friday happened to be a Saturday. Let me restate this so that profundity ... fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... relentlessly upon Cambridgians' freezing bodies, the confetti to its gleeful ... visibly permeates Cambridge, and hike to Voltage Coffee, whose abilities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023