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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  , but most importantly have fun: -The most creative use of objects to ... 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

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that all of these schools look at admissions somewhat differently. Above all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... , which I naively crammed into the Lagrangian instead of kickin' it old

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  most of her dreams. I got into MIT. I blogged for MIT Admissions, which ... evaluation into a far smaller number of people, sometimes just one, often for ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much more time) but also an intense 8-hour daily triathalon of taking quizzes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  -generation Mindstorms. They deviate from Mindstorms in a very important way: instead of ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  does not need straight As to get into MIT. Some Bs are okay. Plenty of ... MIT because they feel like they will have a lower chance of getting into ... taking 5.12 in the spring instead of 7.03. You could also try to get into 7

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room ... Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... , facial expressions, these are skills drilled into you in every theatre ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  amount of stuff Neil is cramming into this lecture. It's very hard to ... know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  We're well into Quarter 3 and my first midterms are quickly ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school, so reviewing important concepts took a while, but the class is really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately ... and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  Stephen Colbert. More important, though, given I live just outside the city ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had come! You all have met Alina, one of our newest bloggers. Well, I first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk ... minute" interview went over by !!!25 minutes!!!, eating into 15 minutes of ... to be let into the area that was clearly labelled with the name of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020