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• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a ... in shape but ten times larger than humans, with blue skin, fanlike

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... found out online this year, which in my opinion is far less exciting than ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  interested in playing on a varsity sports team at MIT, please contact the appropriate coach or fill out the recruiting form. If you are interested in our music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... 's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5 ... interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV ... laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  glass coverslips (yes, we use some high-tech tools in modern cell biology), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... " in blatant stereotyping by creating this FAQ. Q. Are all MIT students ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about ... of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... before term started. We painted all day, slept in the lounge so that we ... back in place the next day. We didn't know that if primer dries on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  decided to stay here in Boston this summer which according to rumors is ... having a lot of fun, I'll also be interning at a consulting firm in Harvard Square and UROP-ing in the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. The

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  professors’ interactions with students in an informal setting. TwT videos are ... . '19, joined it. The people in TwT have been wonderful during the process ... including me in their group’s work. This blog is about the Tea with Teachers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year ... , Apple Bake is a little more serious. It’s on our shirts, it’s in our blood, it’s the colour of our floor (apple-red). In the words of one of our

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024