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• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I ... something and how scary it can be to fail. Year upon year, as we build upon

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... not. Access it through your MyMIT and submit it by Feb. 15! Now, if you ... school doesn’t give out semester grades. Basically, just send us any and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  singleminded devotion and believed he would belong here more than anywhere else ... . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  us your midyear grades and anything new that has happened or will ... January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them ... you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the admissions decision. Surround yourself with friends and family or sugary treats and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty ... midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you ... . And it means that when something is actually urgent, you're prepared

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  Language is a funny thing. It's so natural and as kids we pick it up quite readily from those around us. And now, while it is more ... had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... close to 200 pictures, and I would have taken more, were it not for the fact that my battery ran out of power and I didn't have my charger

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  , sleeplessness, and profound superiority over Harvard in every regard*. Other considerations included aesthetic sensibility and whether or not the photographer ... of attire and companionship, Alex affirms to the unsuspecting viewer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic ... will be a non-lame blogger and give you a lot of hard integrals. Last

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this ... person I had ever met from Singapore. He was very nice and extremely ... with the best and brightest from around the world. I didn't care that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... it home, however, are the colors of the sign. When yellow and red are

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog ... sketchy liberal slums of UC Berkeley and the sprawling Spanish resort ... awesome atmospheric chemistry stuff, and, well, it's hard, unlike choosing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia ... Academy Award 3. I am eating french fries dipped into Frosty right now and ... wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. In February! Anyway, the worst part of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then ... some repeated pumping noise somehow, and I was only just at that moment ... powder, so I used a little cumin, cinammon, nutmeg and dried hot pepper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... like dead turkeys, underwater flame drills, and booby-trapped reactors at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006