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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math ... ?" Nope, and nope. If you've designated MIT as a recipient, there is no need ... performance?" A 720 is fine! Don't give it another thought. Remember that

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  've learned in life this past semester. Breakups I know this is a bit personal ... for the first time in a year and a half is incredibly jarring. I have no ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  or in Kendall Square's own Food Court. A favorite stop of mine is ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity ... going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  [annotation note='Which is how a majority of students in the United States now ... admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non ... means to "improve diversity" is a complex question. As we say in our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... most of my time: co-hosting a radio program, teaching biology in Italy ... hours on end. So on a random evening after work in August, I spontaneously

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  a Toyota Corolla) and drive to my hotel. The hotel room I'm in is ... 't believe how much has happened in just the last 3 days, from Detroit, to ... car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  - this blog, kept by a local New Orleans reporter, is a great primary source. If you've found other things like this, feel free to add them in ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... seem to be responding to your email Notice that he is not in his office

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  ” or “a much larger community as an AFROTC cadet and Aero/Astro major in ... themselves.” Being in a sorority is about “family”, “truly being myself and ... This is a guest blog post from the MIT Panhellenic Association, which

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  been much pain in the semester, but there is no discounting a certain joy ... in them—and I feel like I am learning a lot. Yet, this is not at all a ... ridiculous yet beautiful noise, I am at home. In a sense, this is what has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  the MIT Corporation, his successor Chuck Vest said in a speech, “Is Paul ... brilliant and diverse perspectives is a dynamic source of new ideas. In his ... students, who are historically under-represented in STEM education. This is a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... background, TRB is the biggest transportation conference in the country ... am still excited to be here, network and listen to what is going on in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  mean you should take your own notes, but a TA is actually taking all the ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  current 6.005 student. This is a theme in college: as you get older, your ... ’t a lot of Terry Pratchett books in the usual place, and there is no ... finals, and, in a travel mug that GRT Shaiyan lends me, some coffee. It is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  just how hype it is when i was warming up for a fencing meet that i was ... caged in becomes the reason for our counterattack". THAT is how you get ... this earth to live in LA, and i couldn't run more than a mile without

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  eventually, got it done. So, here is a day in the life, from May 1st till ... in this screenshot. I like to keep count of how many steps I take a day ... restaurant in Cambridge that specializes in sushi. I got a cool roll (for free

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  freshman orientation was in full swing. Practice is a daily affair from 5 ... In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010