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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  SAT scores to the school for early action applicants?" You do not need ... you we will receive them in time for early action decisions. And to ... course can be used to study for the most common questions that come up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... recommended and which appears to be important for admissions. Would I, as a ... honors courses either. You do seem to be among those who are qualified for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  for y'all in case you aren't motivated enough to make your own. More ... Boston and MIT. Weird names. Hard to pronounce names. Names made harder to pronounce because they have special weird pronunciations courtesy

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

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  walked to physics lecture for the first time in weeks. We had a test coming ... attendance has had only to do with the 9AM time slot for the class) if I might ... dorm room, for the next few weeks. ...Oh, and I'm pumped to go to 8

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  disdain for books that seemed--like diet pills or clickbait listicles--to be ... Embracing Uncertainty. It claimed to offer "breakthrough methods for achieving ... time to read them for fun, the way we read beauty & health tips in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  Knight for like the fifth time in one year + were happy to have someone to ... stubborn pset + made those spontaneous runs to MacGregor convenience for ... to the class of 2012, and best wishes for your Commencement coming up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... icosahedron! And this turns out to be too complicated to allow for a quintic

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do ... officer more than 30 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a single applicant to ... to students that should make the process a bit saner for all involved

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  react to this by berating ourselves for “not working hard enough.”  When ... extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in ... don't worry, I'm cool and awesome and never stop writing ッexcept for when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  caption for this was just going to compare the microbe-y cell to an I Spy ... setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other ... the poster with the llama gets to be in the top half. +1 for the Pac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  down, two more to go. 2:10 PM – For the next three hours, we present our ... : https://www.facebook.com/imesmit/videos/1908234159392157/ Three down, one more to go. 5:02 PM – The instructor for 17S.914 ... for me to be a college student. It’s more than just doing psets and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  just tall enough for those beds to be bunk beds. I threw my handbag into ... for the social to begin! Good luck!" Great. There were at least fifty ... 10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells ... needed to grow after I’d figured that out for myself. [annotation note ... Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  fun thing to do is go chairing down the tunnels! Cook for yourself for ... for my friends to use, and they'd later feed me with whatever I provided ... to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... ” to change everything in his life, and joked that he might run for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... everything he was saying. But he went fast. I looked down for five seconds to ... microcontroller instead?" The point was to strip things we often take for granted

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  first place was difficult. Does it take longer to process things for ... )? Or would it be too late to be processed by then anyway? Thanks for any ... to join the under-graduate course for engineering in mit..i m an indian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more ... through for me again- so I rented a UHaul, made an adventurous trip to Home Depot to buy lumber for no fewer than 4 lofts, an picked up a futon all in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008