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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here ... . Enjoy this edited and [annotation note="ever since Petey gave us the ... [annotation note="fifty years later, comp sci is synonymous with Course 6 and is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , thought, and effort that now has to be put into thinking about what is that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list ... /science related in an English class, so I took it and hit the ground running. As I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my first year and have been on my year’s class council since. It has been ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me ... short montage of packing a backpack, taking meds, throwing on shoes, and putting on eyeliner plays. I grab my bag, and leave the room. With the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to ... , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the ... -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  radio. It was drizzling. I parked facing the forest and turned my ... . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I ... application and have chosen to defer it to our Regular Action review.  I didn

  • by Ella T. '25
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... because sunlight shines on snow, it melts, and drips down, but by the time that happens it's less so in the sun and re-freezes.) See the building

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  Hi all, The office is closed for the holiday and there are only a ... and flexible with late documents from schools than with late documents ... science). We only use the scores that make you look best, and we do abide by

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  the open blog threads, and since there were so many questions regarding ... we had over 6500 EA applications and have admitted 650 applicants early. It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... happen with frosh, questions were asked, and as is wont to happen with ... around Cambridge), working over 40 hours a week, commuting and having to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  Friday's deadline and surveying everyone and their grandmother for an ... hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don ... 've been hoarding in my room in case of housing emergency become more and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... responding to your questions from last entry, and the Burton 1 Cribs entry ... last summer, and because my blog bio is essentially the same one I wrote

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  charge an application fee anyway? Between staff time and materials, the costs of running an admissions office are vast, and the application fee ... you and your family truly know if applying for an application fee waiver

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion ... since 2004, and that there are, in fact, about 1800 blog entries in the ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  only got in because you're (blank)." And you know what, it really hurt ... essays, filled out the forms. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but ... mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... times, and then some. It's billed as electricity and magnetism for physics

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  how hard you try), super phat, super fly, one and only MIT Marching Band ... trumpets, a clarinet, two trombones, a snare, a bass, quads, and a sousaphone ... in the drill, and then taking large bows. I tried to remember slow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics, it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  with fog and pine needles and ambition. Our final round would follow the ... bonus round questions and sign a scoresheet. Yet something about it made ... answer before my team position was called, and I gave so, so many wrong

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025