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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  get them to you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment ... lifetime experiences. In between visiting sangomas (traditional healers) to ... in Boston. They shiver at the thought. They ask to decorate my face

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... campus. I'll get to work on that next week, no problem. EC. Matt and I ... 'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... help fabricate portions of projects for these classes. In addition to ... whether you'd like to contribute.  I make an appearance in the video at 3

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... random rock-paper-scissor tournaments, assaulting people to get them interested in working for MIT's ambulance - "HEY! RYAN! YOU WANT TO RIDE AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more ... So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... exciting for two reasons... first, it was my first ride in an ambulance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something ... Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about ... . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... is great for now but once it gets unbearable (in the real winter) I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016