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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... handed out paper plates to everyone, and the half of the lecture hall ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I ... ’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece ... recap of what I did between graduating and becoming a full-time artist (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the ... 's Mathematics Department represents a broad spectrum of fields ranging from the
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  basically the first day of school. i can't tell you how many jobs i've applied ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... glorious date."]1968[/annotation]. Random Hall also has a tradition of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... professional mindsets among students of underrepresented minority groups, with
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  with your choice of “Prestigious Big Name University with lots of money ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ). Then there was midnight. Three of my friends and hall neighbors, M., T ... of art, the transparent front of the ICA offered a panorama of the ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a ... aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  colleges: Rice University. I make no secret of the fact that I think MIT ... I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

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

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  200hz in the unseen hours of the morning. University faded into universe ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  research, or applying to certain summer grants. Or blogging! But of course ... wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

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

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  Random Hall Senior House Simmons Hall Also, there's a new beta version of ... . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  the center of the universe. With that context under our belts, we ... , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an