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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  really answer it. At the end of the day, you really just need to trust your ... enroll at MIT, just appropriate evidence of academic preparation. Sounds ... on multiple choice and standardized tests. I am at the top of my math

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... , engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three ... taking a course load of nearly all writing classes, four or five at a time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of ... back from Pennsylvania at the start of the semester. She made the trip ... . My room is at the end of a hallway that includes the most commonly used

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... microwaved ramen we ate last night while trying to finish slews of problem sets ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... since I won't be home at all this summer, I'm stuck getting piecemeal ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... very healthy--it’s the end of the semester ok. At this point, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  was a simulated base attack, and some of the cadets were "injured" at ... pretty stressful at times, and at the end of the day I was exhausted, I can ... C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying ... We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  president of which club next year... and my friends and I are looking at our ... introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... 's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  fun at MIT I decided to stay an extra year and finish my master's degree ... And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  biplane took a payload of pumpkins up over the fake town at the back of the ... at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't be lame and fake at said interview. 3. Get good scores on the SAT I and ... understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  three divas perform at different times during the song? For the rest of ... of Middle East Biology Principles of Macroeconomics Religious ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  sash. Our class year appears at the bottom of the class shank. The font ... and a worker at an anvil, symbolizing the union of knowledge and ... controversy from reoccurring, all of the sophomores received a survey at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... congratulated me. I asked him to tell me about MIT, and he sort of spread his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  'm more afraid of goats. (Seriously, goats freak me out. Look at their eyes ... (which is the great grandaddy of the website you're lookin at right now ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... susceptible to the Sad types of illnesses at this point, I do think being around ... possibly even both of those things at once. (I would definitely be more okay

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015