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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  me. But although I can't remember where I found the numbers, this is ... thing. I highly suggest it!) So does this mean that you can pour all of ... community college) and get good grades in them. And, of course, you can get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  prefer smaller classes, and I liked that Math in Moscow had classes with ... with insightful questions. I would rather enjoy my time at MIT in ... time away from MIT and find something else to do, so I can be on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  what you hear from colleges in the next few weeks, you can and should use ... skills you'll receive in college. I am confident in your abilities, and ... whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever ... the efficiency I can achieve when I cook breakfast. Things like working

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  . While I'm not technically "faculty," many cool faculty members were in ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  Association, and I do my research in Camera Culture, a group at the Media Lab ... experiences with you all! Ken Haggerty '11: I'm a junior majoring in brain + cognitive sciences with a minor in architecture. I was incredibly lucky to be

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for ... the day—I felt like a sandbag... On Sunday, the fevers kicked in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back ... after I packed two right sneakers in haste: ...here's photographic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  've been up to:   UROP in Langer Lab  I've been dying to tell you guys ... RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  out with no expectation of winning, so you can imagine my shock when I got a call in early March saying that I was a finalist. It wasn’t until ... York City in April for the photo shoot, I had no idea who the other girls

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... movies I suppose... But I found something SOOO much cooler that I can do while I work in my room! XD It's called - OWL CITY!!! I have Fireflies and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I ... minutes, I gave in and pushed the orange button. The nurse fluttered into ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  can hang with the problem sets, you're alright. I feel 12% better about ... general and MIT life in general a bit later this long, wonderful weekend. I ... 21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006