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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  homeschooler who would be going into 11th grade if I were in school. The last few ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted ... my own leisure. I love public transport and seeing how its designed in ... through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the ... that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I ... ! ______________________________ On a personal note, I must say that in addition to being super

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... 'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a ... , Dordy '12, Cathy '10, and I embarked on an adventure that would change the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent ... the diagrams digitally, so I draw the diagrams in by hand. In bad ... would do, but I still did really well. Here’s some scrap paper. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... one point referred to an ongoing Harvard study found at this website. I ... there any less cool. I've been writing this from A-Control in WMBR and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let ... ] (which makes sense if you think about it). In my excitement, I gripped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... You need a surge protector. In fact, you probably need two, so buy three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of ... air travel, you'd think I I would never step foot on a plane again. When

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .012/18.014/18.022/18.024 in that it's mainly for folks who love challenging themselves or would ... early on in High School it's been an interesting experience that I have ... development in third world countries. While I've currently dropped the seminar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... Yields: One sandwich that I have been told resembles something you can buy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  minutes cringing and rolling around in bed, looking like this: How did ... Facebook (in which case, I have to forcefully pluck my eyes off cute cat ... would the app do that their current website already didn’t? An app for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... . Look, I know how anxious this topic makes you. Guess what, so does your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... your financial documents, email [email protected]. Q: How do I schedule an ... Bridge application is being used in place of the MIT application). Q: I've already

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... dislike bowling unless I get a strike/a spare, not sure how much I would ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024