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Blog / Admissions
Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.
There are always many questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... more questions, here is a quick FAQ to provide some more answers. I hope -
Blog / IAP
Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing
surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... and histories, with daily lessons in Greek, Latin, and philosophy for ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora
direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day. Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in -
Blog / Athletics
Photophobic
my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Making Things Fly for a living.
we head for Briggs Field where everything was coming to a head. On our ... The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at -
Blog / How to Human
hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger
unpleasant for them but never long enough to wipe them out. When I run or bike ... feel the urge to push through, keep hiking. I called for a stop about an ... number of classes for the spring will give me more space to be wild and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
who cares about poetry? lots of feelings
an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... . Don't be. Be proud of the courage it took for her to cross an ocean into ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the -
Blog / MIT Life
A Night Off Campus and some dancing
fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.
straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... , acting in plays and musicals for two years before I switched to the dark ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW -
Blog / Academics & Research
Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one
the 30 Under 30 list for 2018. Shout out to John ... 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech -
Blog / Admissions
RA deadline is approaching
emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for ... happy to accept fee waivers for any student (foreign or domestic) who -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition
group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began. POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt
to visit improv shows and eat hot pot. For our second to last day, we ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of -
Blog / About Decisions
Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful
're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better -
Blog / MIT Life
Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…
with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to -
Blog / MIT Life
Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫
I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That -
Blog / Events
Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.
selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list ... IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the -
Blog / MIT Life
Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate
So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book -
Blog / Events
“It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!
for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... freshman dinner... We had to cook for about 30 people, so we started with a ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the Apple