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• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... shape and make a good faith effort to inform us of your circumstances, we ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  background events in your detector, leading to a lot of trial and error on our ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... introduce your actual lab education in a two-semester experimental Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  receive your decision online before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. To ... same username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account ... page and enter your username and password. The verify page is available

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not ... sight and tendency to zone out. Don’t ask for clarification in an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the snowfall. Nevertheless, we persevered!! In whatever combination of short

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise ... . Pretend you’re a journal editor in 1905 for Annalen der Physik. You receive

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... waxed philosophical in a fairly lengthy essay, pondering if the segue into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A ... ’s hard anywhere to achieve your dreams. It’s going to be a tough ... ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  check the MIT directory to get a preliminary idea. If your first name or ... you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts ... (all years encouraged to attend!) If you are a sophomore, come meet your ... from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a My ... receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. Please ... (Monday, March 10) to confirm your username and password. We will not be in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... day hiking in the rain he immediately ran upstairs to take a hot bath

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  in over a month. Just a lot of loose ends to tie up, you know? I ... ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  ? Woooo Sochi 2014! If you're interested in previous hacks, MIT hacks have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at ... Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -para-n-butyl-blah-blee-blah-blee-blah" and get a 98 on your first exam. Emboldened by such an experience, I ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we ... a huge factor in that. I'm able to communicate clearer and quicker to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  Shortly after Kidist's post, we were both added to a massive Messenger group ... This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... fact that you applied to these great schools says a lot about your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015