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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  updated the admissions statistics page for this year's application cycle; we ... Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a ... Sciences (Course 9) What's next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical ... small seminar-style classes heavy on reading and discussing the primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  shirt. Did they know who he was? Did they understand the principles for ... : “My stomach turned as I stepped foot for the first time into Ma ... mental preparation equipped me for the emotional wave that swept through my

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  -finals bonfire. Our notes for the semester were the guests of honor. I remember ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest ... feels like it's made for college students, what with all the long study ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ding_out.shtml The first step (Mollie): Asking for help at MIT http ... Susan commented on the blog, "Because I live far away from MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  over the summer, and of course this only increased my appetite for toast ... DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  most mind-blowing moment from the course was, for me it was when we drew the energy diagrams for the components of solar cells and LEDs and saw ... at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... often get distracted by other stuff and lose passion for the initial idea ... , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  still glad to be in it. When I interviewed for the class a few months ago ... My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  student was poor enough to qualify for free lunch. She was the only student ... July 17, 2006 BY DEBORAH KOLBEN / The New York Sun If you've ever walked ... days, you could find them there getting drunk. Not the falling down kind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  left for me and the other 20+ Cantabrigians and I couldn't be more ... wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  supplies from the prior year — or I could probably go ask a neighbor for some ... , the idea of home brings up a lot of complicated feelings for me. I haven ... for the next six months. We make some weird shapes. We eat some weird

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  ..Typescript) and I did learn Latex for 6.042! The next couple of ones are ... 't have time for it. Keep being active in The Tech - Incomplete. I realize ... goals for the month and week to try and keep me grounded. I'm also using

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... blogpost was written during a pre-CPW event hosted for prefrosh! (The event

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023