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• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  this has been... not so fun. Anyway, the site is back and should be ... decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks ... apps at the last mniute. Normally this wouldn't be a problem for our

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... I solemnly swear that I am about to tell the truth, the whole truth

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... Machine", and hopefully it will be working by the time you get here. Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  polished performance, it's not going to work; if anything, it will probably ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to spend a lot of forced time with not just myself, but the moments I ... appreciation for the people and experiences in my life. To my to-be college ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  and artists, we have not yet managed to liberate women from the ... . The report is not an indictment of MIT--rather, we should celebrate its ... undergraduate women at MIT, including the two who wrote it. I encourage you to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  Tomorrow night, the final Harry Potter movie will be relased.  Here ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark ... parked in Stata; the MIT Quidditch Team had not yet been formed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  snow angel will not be permitted[/caption] By this time, it was 1:30 am ... … His death will be avenged, the next time it snows >:( [caption id ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first

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

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I ... not expect the catastrophe to develop so quickly. Because of this, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  communities are comfortable. They may not exactly be “your people” all the time ... dining hall in it, so if you live there, you have to be on the meal plan ... still be close to my friends in the first three houses. But there was no

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying ... much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... the third ring, and I asked if he wanted to go to lunch. He did. So, off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... must not leave MIT without being able to robustly code something and 1 ... self - aka we're going to be writing a memoir! The professor is Sherry

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  to be strong. Coordinate! Don't wait until the morning of to put ... ordeal while trying not throw up. Throw up anyway. Regret not being able to ... inside. This void will be filled by your new organ! Step 9: Pick up the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  back to me). Anyway, at this point, there is really no place for the snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  ) which is always a surprise to students at MIT course 20 and not. On the ... interesting way of looking biology, and next semester I will be taking the lab ... not make something in which they can make money, the business will very

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  -A grades are not the only ways to be successful (props to you if you are ... to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  before because... eh, who cares why? It's not central to this story. I ... to believe: It is okay to be the weird kid in the room. You are not the only weird kid in the room. You do not have to hide the things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  we will not be able to admit them to the Class of 2019. Turning away so ... , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  flaws, not dissimilar to the Sochi Olympics, another event suffering ring ... Hall, the dorm that's set to be controversially demolished over the next ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014