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• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  below —  and in a separate conversation with MIT News today —  I ... it. I also understand that our emphasis on academic preparedness in ... education and culture. Everything we do in our process is grounded by our goal

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the course 16 anthem? Background: In 3rd grade, we had to do creative

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work ... Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in ... , her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. Translation: You could be in Room 10
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  students - would often bring up something interesting that I failed to notice before." Taking her up on her offer, I pored over many of the pamphlets in ... obligations. In response, Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the idea as "crazy talk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... more than 10 minutes in total duration. Can I submit three recordings of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I ... 't think I've seen a snake that big, except maybe in the zoo. Or in the first ... back in the day, when a little green tree snake slithered over my foot. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog ... am Linh, a junior majoring in Biology (Course 7) and I am currently

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... living in other people’s stories that I don’t have time to live my own. But

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  general feeling of panic. I, myself, only got about 5-6 hours of sleep each day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do ... 're probably wondering why I have so much work when there are no tests until

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note ... for censorship boxes.) I've also been interested in how we tell stories ... we wear and the things we use. In high school, I used to joke about how

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... last night's blogger check-in that I literally broke the November rule

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... very sensitive to subtle differences in bright objects would be ... that if I look at the screen from below, I would also see cyan. But

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  Oberon's orders. In addition, the words of the play haven't been changed except for a few brief instances where the actors have added in-character lines. (These are extremely brief. For example, I'm pretty sure the death

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  it would’ve saved us a lot of stress and heart-ache in the long run ... from Hercules I Won't Say I'm in Love from Hercules The Gospel Truth from ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis ... : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  first logged into the MIT server, I was completely awestruck. I took in ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my ... memories," he says. "I've been in these rooms hundreds of times, but I can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005