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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of ... can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my ... favorite photo ever, taken in Israel by a family friend. The glass of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... test scores in the admissions process, but typically they play less of a ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  American students navigate the college process, and he had been shocked by ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... selection process, but it should not be the sole means of selecting a college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those ... project, how you helped overcome a difficulty encountered by the group, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  window becoming emblazed. with red and blue. Out of the window by our table ... by celebrating an open election? Shouldn't I be glad that thousands of people want to partake in the free process of swearing in our next

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  a disproportionate amount of expletives. by friday afternoon i was ... on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  energy into doing it for me. If you by any chance like to solve puzzles ... and let them roll through my mind. All of my dreams have come true. Have ... that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  this class, and I got one of the two advised by Professor Virk. I love ... Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your ... ?) love of organic chemistry! Everything's been rushing by so quickly that ... had by all. Meet the Bloggers, of course, was a huge success, even if I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  woodturners — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , and here. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  chess — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... , and here. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... sets (likely well over 10,000 lego pieces by my 13th birthday!). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  so excited and allured by the idea of being an MIT student that I ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  "...and this research will lend insight into the process by which [choose ... proportion of women to men breaks down by department?" Ask and ye shall receive ... and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... " by Woodie Flowers, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa ... after 10.301. It's good to know that you can model parts of the process ... substantial progress in understanding the visual processes of insects. But, of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  resources and explaining how to receive help from professors. one of my ... I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most of my extended family lives in India, so being raised in Nashua, New

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022