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• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  half from now, after all of the folders have been read. That's when we'll first start admitting the Class of 2009. More on this as the day draws ... turkey dinner with my extended family. Then I'll spend the entire rest of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we ... -- it should be great, since I really feed off of the energy of large

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools ... Action. (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by November 30 ... . (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by December 31
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest ... offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle ... delights of cookies, I realized how many idioms about cookies there are, if not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... of my week.  Completing those psets will not make me satisfied. I will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school ... realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and ... because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting ... of itself, but preparing for that one exam--and finshing up my other

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... positivity. I know I did. That’s part of why I decided to write this two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... part of home, a part of me, of my life for the past 14 years. Each time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy ... some of my fellow underclassmen learn web dev, I suggested making a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I'd like ... of every second of CPW by meeting your prospective classmates and doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014