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• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the ... do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  Activities Today I am inspired by Christina (my favorite off-the ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for

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

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  The MIT.01 course, Intro to the Institute, has been very exciting to teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  because I didn't want to spend the money or feel cluttered/off-balance. The ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... ."]opening[/annotation] of the closet door instantly spiked my blood pressure levels. So in an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  drawing class Every Tuesday evening, right as the sun was setting in the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  . ‘24, and her lab mate, Rick W. ‘25, an exchange student from the ... of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... recruiting season again, but this year, I escaped from the cycle by accepting a return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for that. We read the blogs religiously throughout high school. We followed the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... , physics, and calculus (these classes are known as the General Institute ... , the answer is no. MIT gives really remarkably, disappointingly horrible

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  I received the following question on tumblr the other day:   ... people to buckle under the pressure. I’ve adapted the response I created for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry ... Activities Midway - (by the way, check out Dancetroupe's performance at the ... my LAST Orientation Activities Midway (I had manned the Model UN booth

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat. Pretty cool actually. I realized in college over the last two years that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... had not only given me the MIT bug but had also resigned themselves to ... my parents brought it up, because the name "MIT" just sat in the back

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... requirements. But AP seems to be the American standard. Which one is preferable ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the internet- on gaming forums, random livejournals by people halfway across the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... . our assignment — the first assignment we got at MIT — was to write an ... inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025