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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... you must let us know in advance by emailing [email protected]. After you email us, we will contact you about how to access our MIT Quest
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... variety of summer programs that I can suggest, first I would encourage you ... I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small groups on the recitation problems, because well...I need help in 18

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a fun blog). In a nutshell, I've been working with my team to try and ... out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... to would be in the Parent’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... this entry would be really anticlimactic if I hadn't gotten her room, so ... -Conner (as well as in Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, and I believe Random

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in ... exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process of the cells. Specifically, I adapted an electroluminescence imaging

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that ... pouring outside. I didn't want to walk in the rain or call an Uber, so I ... I thought this endorsement meant that the black rice would be life

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... City, where I live in an apartment in the Lower East Side. Every night, I ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no ... just as committed than you are. I think this is actually a good thing, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt ... became 60 items, which would put us in first place with a fairly ... Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... , interning in China allowed me to really step back and re-evaluate what I want

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... faculty and the school in general, Dr. Kornbluth talked about how getting ... In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022