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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  possible, and I really took that to heart. Freshman year is kind of a bonding ... feeling this is going to be a pattern, and I don't mind it at all. There are ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  and duly put a check next to the “Theorize-about-things-that ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  , parents, and others at the meeting. There were even a few people who drove ... road that says "Back to U.S." I merge over 6 lanes, get on the path, and ... friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , just a bit late, and took a seat next to Mike. The TA said, "Please keep ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... . ’14 has titled “All Aboard the Rage Bus” and which a few days later is ... them when I tried to sit there, even though it was 3 am and the rest of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students ... you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive (and even ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  always be the city I love more than any other. It's a lot to digest, and it ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to help it tell its story to the world. It's a tremendous professional

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  students from across the country — and the globe — who we are confident will ... or the ACT. We hope that this change will allow students to focus more on the things that matter to them while still preserving our ability

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... instead of making them have to read the chicken scratch that is my ... will be all work that I can handle and enjoy doing. There is nothing I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the ... past year is being so busy that I became selfish, and I want to change ... roughly fifteenth grade. A lot has changed, but some things remain the same

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  them would now be able to go into any freshman class and get the same ... the first oncogene. A 5 on AP Bio gets you credit for it, and there ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... classes taken? And the 6.02 x 10^23 papers that had to have been published ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  bubbles." This is similar to Shannon's comment, which suggested that the ... 'm sure that a bunch of people going to the beach isn't enough to supply the ... anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  that all I offer to the table? After the call, I sobbed and sobbed and ... with who I was, but this past week has proved to me that there's a lot ... me that they're still there. And as that acid burns there, I am filled

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come ... am super super afraid of bugs, and there is a bug currently in my room ... and having determined that the examined life is not the best life for me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  regarding health and productivity. The host: The IFMR is a very ... , and sea freight. The city: Berlin is a huge city full of culture ... been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... .”– but I think that is what makes the story interesting. In life there are ... the sky, and then quickly smash cuts to a hallway filled with students

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022