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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... classes, even though some of my biology recitations were held at night ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• 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?

  only one piece of the overall application. We look at other factors such ... At MIT Admissions, we understand that there have been many disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  started flailing my arm like a maniac. The crucible shot out of my sleeve at ... I got better at letting it roll off. (amount of time you have to be ... the brightness temperature of the sun at the 21cm wavelength was: 70

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  , music, or art, at least as far as I've seen to date. For those of you who ... of you: entries for the Intel Science Talent Search are due at 11:59pm ... asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  . She sort of looked at me incredulously, and then asked me if there wasn ... ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters this morning laughed about. They joked and said it would have at the top

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of ... , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  you find it. You'd be surprised at the number of people who've told me ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... or more, ranging from as simple as who sits at the head of the dinner ... When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  one football game. I never went to any sort of sporting event at my high ... much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I ... dropped out some classes at the end of a semester because they took too many ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  I was introducing myself at dinner I said I was from Boston and one of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... the validity of the test. More on this over the coming year... At this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005