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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and another one of us was in the process of applying to grad schools, and then there was me. there was a decent amount of talk about math grad school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP ... My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... , I work through my supply of rice noodle packs that I got from ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been ... feel adequately busy this IAP, but i still have enough time to hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that my Sundays have been renamed “Day of 6.009 Office Hours.” 6

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

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Gucci to task for suing Dapper Dan out of business and then snatching up ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  tries to cling on to the crumbling remnants of their high school success ... of high school, and I now understand textbook biology thoroughly enough ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  you probably should if you ever want to go to medical school instead of ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... multibillion-dollar-a-year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... institutions, governments, businesses, NGOs, and individuals are addressing the ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity ... letter at the end of this week. Best Regards Birgit Heil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  's radio station; was part of "Pippin," the school musical; is in the school ... office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... relationship with schooling as “unconventional” nor do I think of myself as an ... expectations of school have never quite made sense to me, it’s more productive to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  into this one. *** Throughout middle school and high school, one of my ... school--schools like MIT (among others, of course). Before I found out ... transformed from one of the schools I wasn't going to apply into one of my top

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023