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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... grade in that class is based entirely on your performance on two two ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... wine! eek, free wine!) and staying in a classy hotel on Sunset Boulevard ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  raised a son, J.R., who was athletic and smart. Very smart. In fact, J ... Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Palahniuk is a minimalist writer, which means not a single word in his books ... 's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the ... in person. He even put me in a chokehold, Fight Club-style! That one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  , with a kitchen all to myself and lots of free time and mental space to ... surprising ease. Now, I'm not a big foodie, which is something I've come to ... friends is actually starting a fine dining pop up series at MIT this fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  explain is if the character dies in a random act of violence rather than in ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... like the Harry Potter phenomenon now. Harry Potter is a massive mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  straight allies who have difficulty finding a place that is in line with ... LGBTQ students who have a lot of difficulty finding a place that is both ... reflect the attitudes of the students who officially live in a given living

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it is! I have a number of friends who are enrolled in some aspect of ... -US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading ... than 700 [CDS]. In the end, it is being a good fit & match with MIT that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  [/caption] In particular, being higher than a glacier is kind of a cool feeling ... scenario. My brain is constantly screaming in fear of having to make a ... me enjoying my life is quite high. I see accepting a position in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  themselves in a slightly different way than who they really are. And there ... -time messaging. As she wrote on her blog, a hallmate once told her that "M.I.T. is ... marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... shred me into pieces. I am a fool who doesn't understand physics. It is ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... the picture, hinting just a bit at what will be in the larger picture

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... -too-familiar-yet-not-familiar-enough campus. I'm just some girl who overshared a tad bit too much on some ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... - with that in mind, when is freshman orientation? Is there a family ... the people, even in the more "mainstream" parts of campus, were a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few ... , so I grew up in their studio and developed a passion for designing ... sister moved up to Boston with me and I did a project in microfluidics

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... this new system.    March 11th, 2020 Current students We know there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020