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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  great job, and enjoy life. I took one AP class in high school. Make sure ... . Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important ... ' forum, I'll try to respond both as an MIT adcom and also as a parent. This

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  Delivery 2016)! Am I closer to Iron Man now? Doggo seen on a weekend ... dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a ... First Day. (credit to L.S. '18) I will never get tired of the wonderful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  time and what I want this semester to be like. And then Gloria Z. '26 ... a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often ... , something I had more of in high school. To me, this idea of focus also comes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  I might as well tell you straight away that this story ends with Lady ... 's Creative Director (whose name begins with “L,” I believe, and ends with “ady ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  ?" Totally! I love that show. :-) House is the MAN ... with a 700. I would die for a 700! My SAT's aren't that high. I still ... I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  my LAST Orientation Activities Midway (I had manned the Model UN booth ... myself) 8. things i wish i knew in high school about college 9. obligatory ... Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school ... younger students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I ... only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... that I wrote up a small description of my high school/district and stuck ... exactly no one else. (Merudh and I went to high schools in the same district

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  synchronicity, I was jogging in the Z-Center on Wednesday and Ina Garten was on ... would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us! 1. Hearing While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of auditory goodness. I’m a musician myself, and met several awesome

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  Burnham and Jonny Sun event. Being a Gen Z'er (born in 2002! I am in fact a ... 's...definitely a big change from the person I was in high school. In those four years ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  , things are, as you might imagine, quite busy around here. I'll do my best ... you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... 's Island" theme song. 2. George F. Handel's middle name was not "Frederick ... sea in Antarctic winter after living without food for 120 days. I set my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... : humanitarian crisis, deeply divisive politics and high-profile incidents of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  invention given to man. Now imagine if I really had to study last week ... 't know about you but I was quite disappointed by the endings of both ... there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... ended up as “programming that’s closer to the hardware”…) Recently, I ... might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out for good opportunities, and when one recently appeared in my inbox, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008