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  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  official statement about what we require: SAT I [] or the ACT [with Writing ... testing requirements FAQ. I hope it is helpful! Q. Do you prefer the SAT or ... will use whichever scores that makes you look best. Q. How will the new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... efficient. When I showed up at the student center this afternoon there was no ... MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... know that stuff from the pamphlets you read over and over again (I'm on ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... daughter. "Ted and I both said, 'This is yours,' " Patty Pounds said. "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... (I say this lovingly, it’s an awesome class!).  All semester we have ... other robot, which I worked on, had to help a person open a drawer and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist, at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... means and how to change it if necessary. Wait, am I talking about brains ... I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... list probably won’t get done anyways. So here are some things I wanna ... whole Pset in one sitting with no breaks Actually learn how to spell

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  how to answer this one. I'm thankful ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... dollar investment ever. Coming back to campus last Monday, I jumped ... each other -- like how one DEALer started his own brand of unjunked candy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  % participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... ,000 toward our class project, but just how much he will give depends entirely ... donor. Below is the "grading scale" for how well our class will do on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  ^Earthrise, 1968. This semester, I’ve read over 160 poems, spent 30 ... dozen verses. I’ve pored over meter and rhythm, imagery and enjambments ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  make: choosing your MIT username. You may not appreciate yet how big ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... of your username! Just not flipfrog. I already got that one.

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... (and all other) difficult time. I want to elaborate my point above

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019