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  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... wanted. MIT asks for a lot in terms of high school classes and if you aren ... school of no special importance had both been accepted to MIT! My mind

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  store offered wonderful designs. Something is so cute about spending a few ... usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  . In middle school, I made maybe 8 “friends” initially, one of whom is ... worth it to have met that one person, Ruby W. ‘18 at Colorado School of ... For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  basement computer lab that had serious middle school vibes in and of itself ... [/caption] I <3 MIT: I got this shirt on the very first day of school! It came ... reveals the design of the class ring for the first time. Everybody typically

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  inside of the pipeline daily. These devices must be designed and built ... the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  . D-Lab: Design for Scale (2.279) → Rank C D-Lab! Built a prototype of a ... Manufacturing II (2.008) → Rank D With a team of five, we designed and ... realized I'm not the biggest fan of manufacturing. Drawing for Designers (21M

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  your last semester of high school and keep on being your awesome selves! ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  challenging classes that are offered at your school and do as well as you can in them--if your school has AP/IB, you should take at least a few of them in ... DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  Benevolent Dictator, discussed some of the proposed hunt design goals, talked ... . The purpose of the BD is to direct the flow of hunt design, and have the ... meetings. Design goals One of the first things discussed was the hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  designing, building, testing, crashing and then redesigning. By the end of ... 's specifications, and the coolest part was that I had designed every part of it ... currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  If you've taken high school biology, you've probably heard that ... 's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... is not actually east of Mass Ave) and Baker, Burton-Conner, Mc

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  struggled with the racial climate of my school or family pressures. When my ... officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012