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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She ... to make a dance/drama. The dance can depict epics. It's the first form ... dance was such that she wanted to share it with others. "There are people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign ... lines from afar. It's essentially the public-transit equivalent to air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to ... contributing to patriarchal, oft Western beauty standards, and is it really that ... standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  'd already taken. I considered pushing it to the last six weeks of senior ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... wronged me. I took it freshman fall on Pass/No Record, and I passed. The

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... , pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it ... to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  scores sent to MIT. Our College Board (SAT I, SAT II and TOEFL) code is ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three ... isn't life, and senior year is supposed to be the most enjoyable year of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... ). After you draft your essay, give it to a good friend, and ask them if it ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  "] Budapest looks weirdly similar to MIT?[/caption] It was over Zoom, and there ... up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain ... quality vs. quantity when it comes to leadership roles. “Many students feel ... goal of the GEL Program is to develop leaders, not recognize them and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... students seemed like the kind of people I most wanted to be. As it turned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the ... called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... desire (“omg this person is doing xyz, wouldn’t it be so cool if I could

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  : Bangalore is the best city to work in India –cool weather, awesome ... companies. The city: Beer-Shevais a wonderful city. It is rather relaxed ... fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... anything in particular) it was 8:45am and I decided to make one last break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014