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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using ... If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply ... forwarded to us for review, and we will contact you about filling out our
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day ... exhibit. I have to admit, it is pretty nifty to watch other people try to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... below, about admissions or anything else really. You can also consider it ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... movies related in some form or fashion. It has the potential to be an amazing class, with us going to see "Watchmen" when it comes out, and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  ’re there, you can take countless loops around and along it. Just want to work ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... ’s the northern view. It’s game time! Can you identify all of the numbered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... sure it has been that way for the past two and a half years, but it is now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  's no way I can ever go. (9) Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to ... "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be afraid if you see something unfamiliar." Whatever happened to fair dealing

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  it can be donated to charity. In addition to the student volunteers I ... : it can be tedious and time-consuming, but you've gotta do it. And in ... piles : Bring Home, Keep, and Junk. (If it helps, you can think of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can ... . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to ... committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super ... does—it's great to have a teacher with such a huge range of experiences

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would ... watching Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and comparing it to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  guess it would have to wait. But it's going to be awesome! Can't wait ... to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... psets, then it's almost guaranteed that you're not going to do spectacular

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  fight to outrun a faceless threat. It’s been challenging to feel creative ... remedy I know. So it’s no surprise that I find myself returning to my ... break I told you, this post is long overdue. Its origins date back to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like ... some days it’s like I mean nothing to him. I don’t take it personally ... to my room after having left the door open and I'll close it on my way

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

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be ... kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of electric shock at times when I tried to power a robot by plugging a wire

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  help with a pset problem, when they had to explain it four different ways ... , sometimes it stings. Going from the “smart” friend in high school to the “dumb ... of self-flagellation, but it can also be one of self-liberation. These

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025