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• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  else they would definitely have kicked me out of my hall at that point ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  high number of men who apply (and the low number of women) and the ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  .stackexchange.com, StackExchange offered me an applied math internship in New York which I've decided to take instead. Applied math and New York are both out of my ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... on the second day of the conference.   This is a study hall inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  university." There are a lot of very, very good universities, that are just as ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... decisions.mit.edu. This year, 7,767 students applied for early admission to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  applying for University this year and I have no idea where to apply, besides ... matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... previous generations no longer apply. And the revolutions often grow out of ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any ... Applied 3,052 Admitted 119 Middle 50% score range of admitted students: SAT ... my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ...  "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... well as a good number of the other "top" national universities. Good luck ... of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014