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  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the ... Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get ... Bridge financial aid instructions here. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I ... . This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... , and if they weren't so sweet I would have been way more embarrassed by ... .   I feel it when I'm hiding in a dorm room with twenty people, all

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... dorm dining halls (currently only open for dinner), students who live in ... halls. And even with this in place, MIT still has had to subsidize dining

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be, but I hope this is helpful in some capacity. Table of Contents GIRs ... found helpful and I thought it would be even more helpful to make this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during ... this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask.In

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  person. Christine asked: Hey Jessie, I have a question for you. How was ... were other activities I liked more, or was interested in, and I quit ... committments. Erer asked: I noticed in the admissions stats that because of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase ... Dear Applicants, Each year at this time, I feel an overflowing

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  We look forward to showing you what makes MIT so special! We offer in-person info sessions and tours as well as online sessions. Head over to our ... -created version of MIT in Minecraft!
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  sea in Antarctic winter after living without food for 120 days. I set my ... television in front of my treadmill. Sure, I lost a little by not hearing Alan ... !"). Unfortunately, I would have had to run like an entire marathon to do that, so I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  receive any exam booklets." Prof. Guth smiled and asked whether I was in the ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this ... freakout when gears in my brain clicked and I realized who I'd been speaking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... membrane time constant τm? iv) How much external electrode current would be ... → ∞, V(t) → V(∞) ≡ E_L + R_mI_e. Setting t_0 equal to the current time in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table... I DIGRESS. The point

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... importance of collaboration originated from my work in theater long before I ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  additional information: sign in, click the light green tab "how to APPLY" and ... interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one. "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006