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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... still, from the standpoint of an individual class, the material is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... is once you actually meet them … or talk to them outside of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... decision of accepted students We'll be talking more about the application in ... The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  while blasting Entry of the Gladiators.  https ... the exact opportunity I was looking for. In my senior year of high ... look where I am now! …that is, soaked and sleepy with Entry of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... -reject candidates because of word length, but we believe the word limit specified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... more. Mind you, the HASS-D lottery only involves a small portion of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam ... small changes in my choice of classes, rearranging the order in which I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... cite the FIRST robotics competition as one of many excellent and ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the earliest MIT ... of 2005. First of all, I’m running the Boston Marathon in April! I ... State program), tech companies, and the UN, all of which is pretty neat

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that ... trains and bus drivers and photos of swings - the things that make you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... regretted my choice when I found out that another one of my friends, the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  couches in front of the teeny tiny circular tables are sought-after real estate but the horror of being perceived. this open floor plan. everybody ... so no men; sorry folks, it’s ok though you get 2x the number of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  comparison, the internship application process demands less of you. Instead ... problems on sheets of paper, and talk about your unwavering dedication to the company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020