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• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to ... to send us any scores at all, so I recommend using your four free score reports on each test to send scores to four schools you're considering. Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  available for all to express themselves on the wooden walls) (the Wall of Bad ... try out for an a capella group. I looked forward to living in East ... . When you arrive on campus in the fall, prepare to be hosed. Then plan an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on ... previous posts. Essentially, I worked on a new way to obtain precise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass ... soon come to an end for the Frosh. Whispers ripple through the crowds of ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . After yoga, I decided to go running for half an hour, which was of course ... Rickman's velvety voice, but I still wanted to stick around for the ... escorted the lovely and incomparable Mitra to a dinner for Tau Beta Pi, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip side, that also means it is harder to find people to ask for help ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a ... While Mollie has pretty much sent off all her applications for graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... quadrotors to down an elephant. Swag, lots of swag. If my collection of free

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  to MIT. Although I came here for tech and tinkering, between the rock ... to new things is fun though. When the year goes on and I become ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... asphalt resulting from the free fall of an upright piano. Determined to be ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  before realizing that it was literally impossible for me to solve it on my ...  interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... Disneyland. Precious free time went to a pool trip, or exploring the on ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... point of being someone i don't want to be, if that makes sense? for ... elaborate on the answer after i've given it. it's just that i'm not going to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... ". . . free for the night, what do you want . . . " Things are a little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  's for 29 hours per day and then lied about it on my blog. (*I plan to ... Gave It Back to Me on Tuesday)”. You guessed it: MIT just dumped its ... swift hours, you're blissfully free to cruise along, guarded from the edge

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I ... feels a little like this right now (mouse over): I’m trying to take on ... class is a prerequisite for almost everything else I want to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012