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• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  MIT was my dream. I’d never been to MIT and my only link to MIT was the ... the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how desperately I wanted to be here. This is MIT, and I am here. I taste the words

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be ... education to those who cannot presently achieve it is extra awesome. And yet ... have yet to actually address. So I'm posting them here and trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  and choosing what I really wanted to invest my energy and time in, and ... own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  and processed, we will add it to your application as a placeholder until ... school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official transcript. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  , running errands and working. Today was supposed to be much of the same, but ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  chance. And now I'm wondering - To all of you who just clicked 'submit' on ... my essays obsessively, fine-tuning my sentences, changing words, and asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  ’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  seeds!". Every time I see her, i want to stop by and buy some, but I haven ... Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a ... Chinese and international universities. Our conversation seems to suggest

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  designed to fit perfectly with the others, allowing us to create countless ... a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9 ... whole week, and I had to climb up 10 flights of stairs every day

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... remaining due dates and to start studying right now." Now that I have my ... for a $10 Amazon gift card. Now, instead, I resolve to not care so much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  at 8 AM, and the morning was spent listening to medical and graduate ... Institutes of Health (NIH) to several judges and Harvard Medical School faculty. It’s always neat to explain your work to people who know so much more

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  have to work for it. Despite that, I didn't expect to struggle this much ... difficulty differentiating between when to use vector notation and hat notation ... calculus problems are. I even texted a couple of friends and browsed OCW to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. ... , grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  students are people just like you and me, except that they like to talk about ... applied to me. With due disregard for financial management, Jess and I ... -poached egg and onion rings and too many hyphens. My conscience forces me to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I’ve found two short-term (and vaguely connected) jobs to fill these few weeks ... days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  to our interactions i hate when math and cs students call sciences ... you want to enter lasting relationships with is supposed to be hard, and finding jobs that you enjoy and which want to hire you is supposed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  having hair and having too much work to do can be characterized by variants ... laptop suicides over IAP in order to prevent the horrifying and tragic ... pies and drove to New Hampshire to celebrate pie with her relatives

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  thinking about the CMS thesis that i am soon to write and how much i would ... super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... of things to learn for a while and i'm glad that i finally got around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... brain because I've had no opportunity refused to create the opportunity to ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019