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• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  are and how they fit into the overall context of your application. Scores are important, but at the same time they're one of many components ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  topic, you might as well drag another interest of yours into the mix and ... to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... with a table of contents Open strong and generate excitement by giving a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ...  exciting things our current students are up to! We'll also send you important news and ... description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  important part of your experience--and this is already the case, but I don ... men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  and Cambridge vanished into thin air. So much of our lives revolved ... incorporated some aspect of Real Research into their teaching. I ran around ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  electronic center of gravity calculator (important for weight distribution in ... of thousands of photographs, their work was turned into the largest ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• 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.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share

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

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  lot of things about where I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to go into ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  happens is a new store opening up or a car crashing into a building every ... many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  I got rid of it then or if it finally buckled. When I moved into my ... is 342, which opens up into the kitchen of my floor. 1-room: 1-rooms ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  reconcile with was that I put a lot of time and effort into these, even if the ... 't want to grow up into the kind of person who uses perfectionism to dictate ... by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my ... really had no intention of ever being Jewish while I during my time at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of 2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... simple task or calculation could take two hours, most of those spent trying ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  the most important activity, and the most interesting point of ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022