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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  President Reif's convocation. MIT had an awesome birthday gift for me: The Math Diagnostic Test for Physics Placement. After a fairly gloomy ninety ... birthday wishes, and, in the case of my youngest brother, request for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of ... ’m showing y’all was written for MIT’s, “Describe the world you come from

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... ’t send out any personal email responses, well, I got 46 emails just from ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two ... -week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming ... for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... on an intramural basketball team for about 3 semesters now! We play in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for ... puzzles above and below Searching for something new The last puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  note="Fatima: For some reason, I did not send this question to any of the ... and CS, and I watch anime and [annotation note="know an xkcd for every ... ’s occasionally competition for jobs or prizes, but competition is not the point of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  wrote that. This is why for the most part my past blogs aren’t deeply ... things I’ve made. I had a plan for how and when I’d finish writing. The ... Communication Fundamentals When I signed up for this class, courseroad marked it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... aforementioned mud flats[/caption] I did a little bit of reading for the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven ... , thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying ... cool, both physically and virtually, so please, send me emails! Last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting

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

  +1 for MIT MIT scores again!

  

  I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score!

  • by Bryan
  • August 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Admitted Students The Class of 2011 directory.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2011 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments space for more admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this fresh comments space for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http://ashraeboston.org/scholarship-info.html You can also apply for this scholarship if you're a first or second year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015