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• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... What are you writing your essays on? well I did one draft about a club

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... of excellence in math, science and engineering will tend to fare well ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every application is read in a holistic manner, within its proper context. ... We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Fun With Photoshop Do you have mad Photoshop skills? Show us.

  

  Things are still pretty crazy around here, so until I get a chance to ... loves into a desktop for her computer: Your turn! Post your links in ... mascot. What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... and get ready to head home for the summer! I haven't spent more than two

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  enough in lecture so I have a question to ask them after class. I ... really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... that touches on a controversial or very sensitive topic. Whether you’re

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  borrow in the next 15 minutes?” Real blog entry coming soon to a theater ... edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Delivery in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, Ring Delivery got pushed back a ... a long line of 22s in Lobby 14 to order my Brass Rat. There were a few ... leave campus due to rising COVID-19 cases in Boston. It was a surreal and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a ... by Senior Haus. It gets its name because it involves roasting a steer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year ... happy ending, she was able to get back to sleep later and woke up at a ... 'm in some kitchen or lounge listening to a conversation about critical

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the ... being pedantic. A "double-major" generally means that one gets a single

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  your future classmates. FYI, the reply form and CPW portlet in MyMIT will live in a day or two. ... Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  whatever you want in essay form, and you get a lot of detailed feedback from ... advancing particular values in a normative way I want to unpack some of ... and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... had used (who I highly recommend if you also want to get a memory quilt ... from when I got to rep Sony from the top of a moving bus in the LA Pride

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller ... person affect your life?" To which Bill Gates responded, in complete ... my excitement long enough to get a brief video interview with her

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010