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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  on weekdays). We appreciate your patience as we rapidly transition to ... reaching out to engage you on how we should best work together moving forward ... you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury ... -- forgot how good it was, to be honest. and it seems i've been doing that a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  'd also like to know how many Indian students on average get admitted into ... chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your ... learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR ... walk through the tunnels to get around campus. Tunnel66 is an interactive

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your ... your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  really happy to get to spend time with y'all, doing cursed things on the T ... struggle for me – I tend to get stuck on details. For context, it took me ... had planned out a google doc of logistics the day before. due to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With ... get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... : Working on my thesis: I’m having trouble with implementing code to access

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  get your groceries and sit down to have lunch at like the same place! I ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... listening to your body and respecting your boundaries. About brief ... how to tell a story not just with words but intonation, pacing, body

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  " well on your SATs to be admitted. To answer your question, though, a very ... faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... . Kamran also wrote, "I am going to try very hard to get good scores on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... to get through it all. I wasn't sure how I would get through some weeks ... to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work ... down to the country kitchen and cooked ourselves dinner Diana: your

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... like the world is your oyster. If you’re willing to put yourself out ... to spend my entire summer sitting on my sofa. And so I spent hours and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  makes much more sense to pass out of bio and get a head start on ... you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  start blowing. While you’re blowing, push on the tip of the glass with ... pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on