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• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  eternal summer you left.   Distance is to learn how to live on your ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... ... How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look?  

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I ... to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... deadline to remove from your transcript any class in which you were currently ... money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  , or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage ... , and meet, the dates and deadlines, get everything in complete and on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this ... project - but a good two weeks in, I found myself getting a refresher on ... and I will probably get to work with another language - R, a statistical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  to get into the city. If you're coming out to Boston on a plane anytime ... usually take to do a Ph.D. program? Like how long is your Harvard one? It ... tips on getting one of those NIH internships here; you have to fill out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to wear my waterproof flip flops Warm weather When I get to Mass Ave

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  show's creators center the plot development on her trying to get with the ... your story. ...I often wondered how I could be drawn to Japanese culture ... teens who get perfect scores on their PSAT's and participate in a host of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... and insight into your particular situation. They're more than welcome to ... disappointed, are remaining upbeat, continuing to work on other applications, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  'm so and so and I read and comment on your blog all the time," I want to ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you ... this will give you a little inspiration as you work on supplementing your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... , but it won't determine your future success and happiness. How you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... . There are a million ways to get involved in a million different activities ... House when it was -20 degrees outside. But, now I get to complain about it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on November 30th, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone ... visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to ... content on your cell phone that guides you around where you go to school or

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  test out of it, you have to do all the problem sets for the class on your ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... pressure head on the fluid, and how the cuff she had tightened on my arm was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman ... you are on Pass/No Record and don't want to have to worry about getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... , I led the freshman over to a whiteboard, and stood on a couch while he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... put all my eggs into one basket, and i truly was expecting to get ... heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you're ... impromptu decided to go on a skiing trip (in New Hampshire??) with Next House

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018