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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  significant in either A Prayer for Owen Meany or Donnie Darko. Joe's Dad takes a break for lunch while Joe does an interpretive dance. I think we ... Hampshire with Joe and Joe's Dad. A picture is worth exactly one thousand

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  ’t play, turned a senior-year resolution into a love for the gym, and comic ... campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are ... has some new baby bloggers, all very excited to write for you! After

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  future or telepathically reach the Admissions Office. So for now, try to relax. Apply to Regular Action colleges (for that, refer to 2 and 3). Live ... . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  were sad on the ride home that they wouldn't be returning for a while ... selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including ... semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a quarter-based system). If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  time playing for you guys; I think Tim crowd-surfing was a personal CPW ... snapped a picture with Shaye Storm, the Master of Ceremonies for BOTB ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... around for a bit before finding our piece of floor behind home plate

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... ’t actually have to completely define us if we would only let go of them for a ... windowless white walled hospital room for science research (ugh). It is a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a-CPWtime events and have once-in-a-CPWtime experiences! If you like your host, maybe

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  meeting with you for an MIT interview. Now, to answer a few questions I was ... credit for courses taken at a local college; you can read about the ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  interval training for the first time in maybe a year or so. Now might be a ... -sets or the course material. As unconventional as it was for me to see a ... psychology grew out of a call for universal education, and that it reciprocally

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  this was probably mostly due to illness, but a lot of it still holds for ... were ringing for a good 5 minutes after pulling the lever. The entire ... 's going to happen to my professor to make up for this? Ever heard of a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  questions you for an hour about what steps you are taking to solve a problem ... waiting for a scan to complete when our supervisor commented that although ... have sprung with a vengeance, and yesterday, what I thought was flurries

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students ... , it's not the sheer difficulty of the work that poses a problem for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  ! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the ... ? I told you guys - I'm not a science kid. Hook me up. In other news, I ... going for you folks?

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006