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• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  's Bollywood movies are mostly shown by Bombay Cinema at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get ... previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  guess you kind of get the same impression with the Old North Church in ... pictures of stupid hills. Stupidly beautiful, maybe. So, for the price of ... not to do that. And here's Ling '07 at the top of one of the spires

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic (when I was at an athletic peak, letting running fill the place of so many ... ="92670" /] We stopped on the side of a very steep hill, opposite a lake. It was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been ... later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  caught a glimpse of it in my tour guide at Constitution Hill, a man who ... professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I found a position at the Center of Biomedical TB Research at Wits

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... nagging at me as I start turning hiking into a hobby. First is a feeling of ... messiness that is the real world. At the end of almost every semester at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  are one of the most painfully complicated things currently at MIT. So ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically ... north of Boston, where we'll move in June with our bunny, and of course we ... people (moms) who like to look at this sort of thing. The ceremony will be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  the Metro. At the time of my visit, the Glass Palace, which is inside ... public and can actually be entered, though at the time of my visit, it was ... Room [Flamenco at Casapatas] Courtesy of Professor Resnick and funding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  Airbnb had checkout at 11am, which for those of us who were up at 4am was a ... of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  II of the application. If you are admitted and you enroll at MIT, then ... course offered at MIT?" To help me in responding, my erstwhile housemate ... currently working towards another degree in nursing at a local community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  this is that not receiving an offer of admission does not make an ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  stress of college applications and the stress of just being at school in ... , letting them know the good news. I got a lot of fake shit at school. A lot ... nearly cried with joy at the prospect of not having to go back to high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the ... Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005