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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest ... If you were selected as a QuestBridge Finalist but did not rank any colleges, you are welcome to apply to MIT using your QuestBridge application
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was going on, but it turns out this is actually a normal response to stress

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  . Basically, I want to go home. And I never plan on going to a hospital ever ... of doctors and nurses and I am afraid to talk to them. But there's a ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different ... and build a chimney. Not to be outdone, I landscaped my house's yard ... later found three dudes trying desperately to complete a 2-story octagonal

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease ... article, it would probably be better not to rank... I just got a visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... influences your relationships with print material. Is a viewbook as useful to ... Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the Esplanade, a nice park along the Charles River, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... , the sun begins to set over MIT, while a blimp flies overhead; next ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... school has sent a hardcopy transcript, you are still required to submit the ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... A’s, planned to go to GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design), dreamt ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took ... : -- <3! (full credit to whoever built these!) -- P.S. I'm currently scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn ... amount of homework to do. i have a weird and unhealthy tendency to keep ... also a lot of fun. warming up to a Yung Gravy song might've been my peak

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  opportunity to work with the Kushal Foundation, a non-profit organization ... diverse cultures a greater sensitivity to the different ways people view ... Internet connection that we had in the slum to watch a video of Bill Gates

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... that a lot of them are going on to bigger and better thing. So when ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... Boston. It's also home to a football field-sized reflecting pool, which ... the shade and tried to finish a final project report due that afternoon

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  , my thoughts drifted to a dinner conversation from months earlier with ... ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... because it gives me a legitimate reason to use my crayons. Otherwise I just ... Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012