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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... , some context in which to understand them. This year was our biggest ... it is impossible to know at this time exactly how many complete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... Admarket's flickrSLiDR) So how did we manage to get so lucky? The answer ... (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  ) real analysis seeks to, in addition to other pedagogical goals, teach how ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to ... celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  the X number of units you need in order to graduate. The grades you get ... people in every class get to experience. Very useful connections, if you ... you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few ... fairly accurate graph, if it referred to dogs) just look at how adorable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that Course 1 allows me the opportunity to participate in a program such as this and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything ... you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... really wanted to take. And where, you might ask, did I get in with these ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  the day, companies also gave talks about how to user their software in ... getting to be too much to try to figure out in one sitting. Cue 4 am ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer questions about how people live and what matters to them: through asking

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... difficult to understand why the health sector is more in demand today than say

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin. He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly ... light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  89%) in O levels and 4 As in A/S level is how much likely to get ... feel compelled, and you think it would help us get to know you in the ... your question is more in-depth, you may wish to call the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006