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• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my ... ) ------------------------------------- Samira wrote, "I got gold medal in International Astronomy olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can ... eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... nice? Do they look miserable? Vibes/ambiance - Can I eat here without

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after ... branded it as bubble tea. i loved that place in high school, but compared to ... print version and i managed the website. it's a short story that i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  Herbert and I camping in the desert, and it was absolutely beautiful there ... threw three in a row and popped all three!  I told him to try, and he ... little tacos and I hope that I can go back there one day soon! Speaking of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college part-time, you should calculate your full-time term equivalency in
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years ... things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  scrapbook, and put all our sketches in the protective sleeves so that we can ... from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... choice. After that I barely even remember. I know I'd be happy in any of ... that, but I believe Random came in around 5, right before or after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in ... danger of hurting him/herself or others, I couldn't in good conscience ... A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this ... each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  Engineering’s website because it has a neat background graphic that I wanted to ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post ... in a poster that I still have hanging in my room today

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... does either. Steve had a very distinctive style of lecturing that I can ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023