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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  memories of middle school. That’s something that a shiny new parka will ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  captain of the team, but not the captian. Someone might be on the school ... Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a lot of people have been having final projects due this week. Outside

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  lumber. One of my favorite elementary school teachers, Mrs. Condon, loved ... kindergarden teacher handed out 100 snacks on the 100th day of school (10 ... took a lot of leaps in high school. But that doesn't mean I'm not afraid

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action ... classes, because of an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  understandable to a high school audience. (Mar 3) A lot of my work this semester ... of high school. I think my tour guide was one of the DPhiE founders ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  productive high school years, congratulations! Your story is now part of MIT ... 're done.” Don’t think of all the ways you could have made the application, or the life described in it, better. Think of your wonderful high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know ... , "If one of our parents is coming with us to CPW, is it okay for us to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single ... senior fall of high school when I'm taking multi-variable calculus and ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  school, at which point he "gradually [accepted] the existence of God and ... As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL ... , after I realized that finishing "before school starts" was an illusion of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... cards and reference sheets; a lot of my upper-division biology classes are open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at

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

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021