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• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... people, including those who apply to MIT, have a difficult time thinking ... salient, and most likely to swing an admission decision in a highly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  understand the claim to not trust it and ignore like a 550, but if you have an 800, is it really fair that that is not even given a consideration? To ... at all happy about my SAT scores and felt a need to take the TOEFL in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big name private high school? Or is it possible to get a good enough

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

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class ... was fantastic. I used to think of the arrival of Spring simply as a ... a doctorate, but work with me here) and the kid has to not only carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... commented that perhaps I would like to someday become a professional plane

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were ... tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  was alight with chatter: it was obviously going to be a vicious battle for tickets. Olivia was a teenage wunderkind who had somehow managed to ... can't pinpoint a single instance that propelled me to do this. But I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts ... seemed like a nice way to try and bring the form to the blogs. I embedded

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... kind of means a lot to me. Not necessarily the literal institution; the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function that rotated the curve around a vertical axis to a create a 3D model with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... offered a job. it happened to be an infinitely more interesting company and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come ... AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless ... have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to ... a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... ruffs reciting iambic pentameter at arm's length to a skull. Nothing could ... length. It took me a month to cut down what turns out to be Shakespeare

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... , and then eventually went to bed. It was a good day, quickly to be ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008