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• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  longer sentences diffuse it. A separation between the subject and its verb ... . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 12% of applicants means that we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting just 12% of applicants means that we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  day and 1/2 of a letter grade penalty per day for late submissions. I ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... to ask for an extension, and at some point figured I could nap and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  home…hung out in random Jamaican restaurant 12:50 pm – got settled and ... – Dinnertime!! We cooked family style and each made a dish. 12:14 am – headed ... , and since my bus out of Pittsburgh didn’t leave for another 11 hours, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  jargon) is MIT for "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Below are all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note ... Sciences 10: Chemical Engineering 11: Urban Studies and Planning 12: Earth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... a great number), Brown is averaging 170 yards a game and has run for 1 ... yards in 17 of his last 18 games and is responsible for 58% of the team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  I could be here for hours and make almost no progress.   2 ... butter and jelly sandwich for the road.   6:10 PM: I sprint up the ... . I sit down for the first time in what feels like an eternity and turn

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  desired direction: -0.12 for Washlava confessions and 0.18 for the randomly ... my room. Over the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, MIT ... . For the first two weeks of my sophomore year, the machines and the app

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  that MIT is hard, and everyone tries to prepare themselves for the fact ... college experience, and consequently the one for which I’ve been force ... refreshed and re-energized. More importantly, when I didn’t have time for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and ... . Time to recharge and explore. Pure bliss. But then, 12 days later, as ... week after MIT's. But, I ended up taking an additional 2.5 days off and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  be especially true and helpful for current times, given all the ... th grade Western Humanities and 12th grade Civics, to write my letters ... "hey can you write a letter for me" and then enter their email into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... before that, a group of our then-freshmen ('13) teamed up for 6.270 and won ... scheme and to each other: Maslab - Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  fierce. In 2004, 12,445 students applied for the freshman class and 1 ... Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... a trail for other students and earned a scholarship to a prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  staring at The Weather Channel for hours on end as a child, and having a ... , Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences). Freshman year, I declared Course 12. Then ... house (built for and lived in by some wealthy politically-important Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  ,...,fk. For example, in 123, f0=1, f1=2, f2=3 and k-1=2. The input f3 ... , we can implement code for this, And finally, we can make it pretty ... our model (both through the design and through code). For example, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A ... , humans, and pigs, but it has been more widespread than H1N1 for the past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... efforts of Anjali '12, Brian '12, and Omar '12. Yumm. I'm actually hoping we ... the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  things they pushed aside for psets before. Catherine ’12 was quite busy ... interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009