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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  MIT students are used to being the most giant fish in a teeny little ... get it into your head that it's going to be hard, but everyone else will be more than happy to help out (because they will), and you'll all help

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  : "There doesn't seem to be an area for the required-but-not ... institution, then he or she would not be eligible to transfer to MIT." So if I ... which you choose, you will still have to take the SAT IIs - one in math

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  not need to complete the Part 2 (essays, activities, awards) - we will ... application is incomplete, we will not be able to match you. However, we would ... to the application fee, choose the fee waiver option. There is no need

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... , and why don’t the rotations cancel each other out anymore? To explain ... times to achieve the desired orientation. There must be something else

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. (See 3rd from ... be seen by the Admissions Committee (February will not be seen). If you ... 02139; USA. Be sure to include the appropriate cover sheet. It need not

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  talking here—I couldn’t not be the neutral, helpful blogger. And I couldn ... bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a ... still be a non-graduate, to not know if I could graduate.  I registered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  admission to be a worry.  If you have submitted your EA Part 1 but not ... decisions.  It will probably be in mid-to-late December.  Please be ... ;Superstorm"?) Sandy, we will be flexible with your EA application materials.  I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  , the admissions office will not be answering phone calls or emails from ... before the deadline? Not to worry! We will still accept required ... to offer you an interview, it will be waived, and it will not impact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  beyond the 16.67 million will be lost. What if Elliott had, for example ... 's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines for two hours - the system is not actually measuring anything. Let

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit a creative/maker portfolio as a QuestBridge applicant?

  . The deadline for QuestBridge applicants is November 1, and fee waivers are available for any applicant not able to cover the submission fee. ... required. To learn more about the different kinds of portfolios you can
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  changes in your life and self-perception will be easier to handle. Make ... —after all, freshman fall with Pass/No Record had to be the easiest of all ... the Bloggers, I’d like to say this: Be excited. Hold on to that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now, the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  : they will not.) iv. depression I submit a drop form for the class to my ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I ... frosh and they screwed up then and I am not just [annotation note="to be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  postpone project work to clear the time. In general, my philosophy is not to ... I’m making time to go, but it means that April will be pretty ... ’m supposed to be enjoying myself, frequently I have work in the back of my mind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... eat and sit and talk properly, and embarrassed to be waited on by the ... guess sometimes they don't. I couldn’t go through with the transfer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On the last section of both ... form and we will be sure to get the interview report. If your EC has ... you are deferred from EA to RA. This form will not be made available

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Complications "reminded me why I'm not premed". It had nothing to do with the ... transfer the proteins to a nitrocellulose membrane (which binds proteins and ... successful transfer requires the frazzled lab monkey to correctly orient

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  haven't transferred the ticket? Well, that's because we aren't allowed to. No, it's not possible. I don't care if they say it needs to be done. I ... them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  - Go through some of the MASLab tutorials so that I can be useful to the ... am not sure how many transfer applicants get in and what the admissions ... transfers is very low, but it can be done. Aidan asked: "How much will we be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006