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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note ... without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of ... letter of recommendation, we strongly recommend asking one of your math or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be ... of things that make me happy. Because knowing how much I spend, lets

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four years. However, I’m sure not everyone is ok with this wily-nily method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  " align="alignnone" width="1000"] A most stunning sunset of Dorm Row my ... you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin ... an off-campus apartment and settling into a new pace of life, an expat

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... month. My last year at MIT, I spent most of it ignoring school work and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at least happy about that. Here are the previous editions of Blogger Wrapped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024