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• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable ... of things that make MIT seem like the big bully at the playground ... /NR) but nobody has really discussed it. Here's the gist of it. At the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective ... Young Scientists (PROMYS) The Ross Program Stanford University ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  House. Ran into: Ariadne, Curtis, Phil, Kris, and The Entire Class of 2010 on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The class so big that people sit in the aisles.. of 10-250 (note: chairs in 10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... , and Portuguese, and also French (just for fun). So sometime over the ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I ... 'Elijah.'" Sam's Mom: "He doesn't laveth the thirsty land?" Sam: "No... He

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although ... unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... the most of the Institute when you're here. You can learn more about
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... : “Show the admissions committee who you are!”, “Be passionate!”, “Don ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in ... two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of ... (but make the lines infinitely long). Assuming these lines are not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  , considering how most of the bloggers listen to more music than ~95% of their respective countries. here are the previous editions, if you're interested ... . the top two for top artist minutes listened are on the lower end here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... - here are, respectively, my firehose from the semester and my current IAP ... complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... breakfast sandwich and run across campus to the Koch Institute. I stepped

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from ... was today" and wishing me a happy birthday. In the e-mail, he also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking the MCAT). I thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter - since some ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The beeping oh god the beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired and then it stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that ... ) The most reliable recruiting tactic one can use when holding an event is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It's the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is ... 've reached the limits of your productivity. Conclusion: (4) is your only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  fun. You got the same grade only he had more fun."   I read ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008