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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the ... , Charles-facing windows of the lounge. I sidled up to Athena, hoping to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [LIVEBLOG] 2 Girl 1 HackMIT this joke would work better if we had three people on our team

  

  wondering? Well, the basic point is to build some sort of working project ... project, you can win [annotation note="one of the options for the first ... convinced [annotation note="she's a cs and math major at the University of

  • by Leya E. '30
  • September 19, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and ... ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of ... semester, despite the challenges of doing group projects over Zoom. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community ... preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite ... change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... journey through the world of science; Dr. Cohn brought a quarter launcher ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of ... essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the ... relationships with them. I even began developing the relationship of my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... (the topic of the class today) where our teacher showed us animatics from ... it was these screenings. And the most exciting part of today’s class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other ... code of ethics. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of the ... (what really is the internet, anyway?). I've spent a large amount of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  follow the progress of your application and please allow five days for ... - please try over the weekend or next week. Late receipt of financial aid ... ’t be answering the phone over the weekend, but a few of us will check

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  of you know, the admissions blogs originally grew out of independent ... discussing starting an office Instagram, a few of the bloggers volunteered that ... the lens of these other platforms as well. So, as a resource (and a bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... well capitalize on the opportunity. As it happens, I'm feeling sort of ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this ... growth. Regardless of that, though, the irrational part of my brain has ... anticipated any of this -- any of the things I've accomplished or seen or done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 ... across the U.S. and immersed ourselves in the fundamentals of principled

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my ... the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of ... an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  be penalized in the application process for disruptions outside of ... knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly