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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  /No Record: if you get a C or above, you get a P on your transcript. Otherwise ... answers to the question: one, it depends on your major ... Thursday, 10/26, 7-9pm EDT. That's over now, but you're welcome to email me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... first be a good engineer. 2) Learn on the job Nobody tells you how to ... who were willing to take the risk and get their hands dirty. 3) You’re

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  would try to get your SATI Math over 700 as well if you can. There is no ... Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12 ... CollegeBoard to send the scores to us, they will automatically go into your

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... hard to accept. Eric Olsen: How did the pandemic affect your admission ... how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , for having taking the reins on my life and fighting my way to get here ... him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  research so you're getting it anyway. I said goodbye to Daniel, got on the ... to me how many MIT and Harvard undergrads know a lot about how the ... 's because we all want to imagine how things would've turned out, in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  see a machine churn out a derivative of your work, to know that a soulless language model trained on snippets of your soul to produce said ... their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get ... , waiting for my turn to sit. if you’re going for the first time, get the ... sad and need to get inspired in your life. the ramen is not the point of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is ... select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... put together, on steroids, enhanced with access to a network of former

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are dorms on campus where you can paint your own walls and string up your own ... enhance who we are. How do we have time to paint murals? After a grueling

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  define MIT’s presence on the global stage. I had the opportunity to learn ... biology and is now about to finish his MD, with an eye on radiation oncology ... Anna Teytelman, whose UROP was on Japanese hip-hop; she ended up getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  in class we got to break away fromo background information to get some hands-on, practical experience. I now know how to use a sphygmomanometer ... and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links ... the dates of summer activities section, we're just trying to get a sense ... really appreciated your presentation in Winter Park, driving to the other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and ... to your application. You may not rewrite your essays, redo your ... because we want to reconsider your application (the one you have already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your ... as your Athena locker. So Ben sent me a link with info about how to ... . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  arbitrary wing in Next. You’re allotted one week to wander around and figure ... you some background on the [annotation note="To be clear, literally ... your room”. He says “the room was completely inferred”"]ride to my room

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022