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• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and our group consists of three MEng students, a Master’s student from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... few flights of stairs) - you know, the usual. I'd say you've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  at the homepage Spotlight as of Friday and continuing through the weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... matter what "some people are saying." It also reminded me of Yuliya's blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... work outside of academics. The report also shows differences among the responses of white women, Asian women, and underrepresented minority women

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.   ... strangest and most exotic creature of them all: the wild, weird humans of MIT.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  microwaved ramen we ate last night while trying to finish slews of problem sets ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial ... Sky Sculptures. Helium explores the “spatialisation of sensibility

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... match of the season, instead of the spry, bright-eyed youth that I should

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... spritely age of 11. I looked through the catalog of extracurriculars

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005