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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  countless films of [annotation note="as short as 2 minutes or as long as 2 ... , or a long shot from across the street to establish a location ... ="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I apply before I have begun my final year of high school?

  We do not require you to have earned a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent before you enroll. As a university for students with unusual interests and aptitudes, our philosophy is: if you have surpassed the
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... write a long “personal statement,” we prefer asking a few short essay ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  the Boston University Theatre, where my advisor has bought play tickets ... Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... random old dude is stabbed. He sings and moans and sings as fake blood

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  any fourth or fifth grade class in the United States might be. We said ... university-turned-camp. There we met the president of the university, who is ... NGO, and that the university had not been in session until about two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  University Science Library (10 minute bike ride) for several weeks. But Harvard ... that the University of Texas, his alma mater, has its very own Gutenberg ... 's copy has a long horn watermark. Basically, according to Chris, UT found

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... prompt for the rest of their life compared to most leading universities ... - this is why our science courses go nearly 2x or 3x faster than state

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  this unwritten pact (well, I guess it's written now) which states that if ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  state and remarrying. My father was awarded primary custody, and because ... who went to the state level with my science fair projects, and who took ... longings. Here they were, playing themselves out before my stunned eyes. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  state the flagship state university provides strong programs in areas our ... colleges/universities. Because they carry a different mandate, publics ... . Private colleges/universities on the other hand are freer to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  something isn’t ~a big deal~ in the long run, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be a ... energy, excited state, which is great to be in, but eventually, it will wear out and you would go back to the ground state.  and so, it doesn

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but ... else. If you attend school outside the United States, and have teachers ... a different school, as long as that teacher meets the above criteria

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... members/fake-members-subscribed-to-their-mailing-lists onto a subway trip to ... shown above picked the right one, so I didn't need to think long about non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... Vík's beaches. (1) Me enjoying myself at a stop en route to Vík ... beach in Vík. That night, at the hotel, we sat in a geothermal hot tub

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been ... state of self isolation. I knew it was stupid. Part of it came from the ... something makes me enter a full state of panic. They had robbed me of future

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn ... my mental state, that I was getting away with my little secret.    ... to varying degrees, but I always felt insulated by the fact that my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  pictures of Conner 2 residents (in varying states of formal attire) enjoying ... ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... her Secret Santa gift. Anyway, all of that is a really long way of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  your competence to a greater degree, so good luck just walking into the ... /MIT vs. say a state school. (like will they even factor that in...that you ... sheer numbers perspective -- many, many students from state schools with 4

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

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well ... of the expanding universe is revealed through cataloging Right: to the ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... president of the United States of America.  His name was Mr. President and we ... had a very long train ride home with the other New Yorkers.  When I got

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012