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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... us better evaluate academic preparation. If you are planning on
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  ). Are there other kinds of stories you'd like to see on ZigZag? Things or ... include highlights from this year's 2.007 Robotics Competition, the "seeing machine", and the awesome Disco Dance Floor (!). Check it out: Hosting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of ... also a lot of other cool performances going on throughout the weekend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  now, was forever ago. i was standing on the harvard bridge staring into ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do ... Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  . what to do after Reflect on your time. Was the house okay? Was the ... improve on? It's good to identify what went well and what didn't so in the ... 's incredibly hard to live on your away from home, especially with your friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Senior Week, we celebrate the graduating class and provide them with their final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the ... the carpet to stare at the dome, let me roll around in the grass and ... taking initiative to act on things that aren't quite problems yet. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  journeyed to a small side street and spent the next three hours on sketching ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston my 11.001 class went on. In lab, Arka '10 and I had the only completed

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... member, this year i had the great opportunity to help write for the hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... it comes time to pick a grad schools. 2. The discipline I chose ... next ten years of their life to the poverty-stricken pursuit of higher

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... the solutions, that way I have something to look at if I get stuck. This ... can't do this anymore. I'm heading back to the dorm. I'll be updating

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Random instead of having to lie on your back in the Sistine Chapel. Bring ... with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  outside the MIT bubble. Sounds crazy, right? Well, do you want to leave home ... comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  , so I'm on the downhill now. If I can just make it through Orientation ... So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC ... a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017