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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs ... amounts of free time. Let's start off with the Center for Talent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... had felt too soon, almost as if I were betraying the sanctity of my ... as “home”, and I came to a conclusion of sorts after the discovery of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese ... the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes ... state of self isolation. I knew it was stupid. Part of it came from the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing ... . Unfortunately, that means that sleep is the shortchanged leg of the trinity. So I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for ... suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a ... think I liked science that much; it was just the area of the pool that ... something I would put at the top of the list of things I am most passionate

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously ... tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of ... about the realities of science. I've edited out expletives, in order to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture ... delicious. But the conversation around the table was just as good. A mix of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted ... award. So if any of you think getting the perfect score isn't important ... in MIT admissions. But do any of the above things, or anything else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... and the people around me that the realization of me having this much

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  -class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea ... school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006