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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  forwarded to us for review, and we will contact you about filling out our ... transcript through the QB application, please allow 7–10 business days for this ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for ... So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a ... intimidating. I [annotation note='i thought people were saying “die grass“ for ... going for, so i just thought i missed an idiom or something. tis always

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby ... ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... system, with a House President and Chair, as well as chairs for everything

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such ... would visit MIT several more times for the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who ... band-aid of sorts for students, as they got beaten and battered during ... 've consistently tried advocating for ourselves with various forms and petitions and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of ... remote graphic design work for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. We did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... the same lecture, but if I sit in office hours for enough time, it ... year, registration for this class is lotteried probably because Professor

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that ... ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE LEAGUE the CENTER FOR CIVIC MEDIA the MEDIA LAB

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  solely for [their] content.” Those are merely "used books" and not fit for ... for the antiquarian book connoisseurs. Same goes for the $2 ... , and I know none. For the fun of it, here’s some technical antiquarian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It definitely was the case for me. I was 12 when Jon Stewart began hosting TDS ... only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus ... and headed out to Wichita, Kansas for the 18th Annual AIAA DBF ... carefully lined with soft things and packing foam, was waiting for us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  about an hour south of Tokyo for a company called Toray Industries. Haven ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI ... their connections and try to find a placement for you. MISTI will also get

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... perfectly reasonable direction for that conversation to take," I just want say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... Chef, I’m dusting off the cookbooks and asking mom for advice. I was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Franklin High 'regular guy' bound for MIT by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... him for his brains. Few local graduates in the class of 2009 were as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic" new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe ... here! That goes for you too ladies, naked guys standing just 6 inches ... , if you manage to do rooming right (but we'll save that for a later

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009