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• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... home to Cambridge. The past two days have consisted of rowing practice

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  .) Katharine asked a great set of questions in my last entry about the bio ... some of the stuff they say is just too funny. Most faculty members teach ... also don't realize it until you're an upperclassman, but most of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  's how it works. You should accept the offer of admission from another ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... only 6 males. This made me wonder about the number of female applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So why, then ... : The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 -- Way West

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems, and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was ... day spa and salon on Newbury Street. The priciness of Newbury Street establishments roughly increases as one moves west to east, and the Daryl

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  months, as I tried my hardest to ignore it. By the middle of December, I started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to. Very exciting. Then I saw that a couple of the places had interview

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... , bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... ungodly long paper about the symbolism of the whale or some such thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  unaware of it - the 1975 MUSICAL: the last five years - jason robert brown ... the world? civilization and government seem doomed in the face of ... more like me." this is the attraction of state media; when the entire

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  before." Taking her up on her offer, I pored over many of the pamphlets in ... debate. Just like every political debate, the "Constitutionality" of ... Books of the Year" (Wall Street Journal) "100 Notable Books of the Year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... Action. (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by November 30 ... . (All of the MIT test requirements must be completed by December 31
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This ... to the MIT Class of 2024, which was the last class selected before we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... classes have already assigned the final pset of the year. Post

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , and here. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already ... in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019