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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... the resources to teach it. Would MIT distrust the score because of that

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room ... forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting. Three categories of books survived the cull: used – but still useful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After ... ." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  terms of planning. spring break officially began on the 18th, but it emotionally started for me on Wednesday the 16th, which was the night of a Tame ... the best concert experiences of my life, second only to the Tame Impala

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  battery cells, and even testing the results of a Nature article. This year ... a mini photo essay of what's been going on over the past couple of ... snowed! This is the front court of Emmanuel College in snow, with a snowman

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... the gaps of some of the stuff that I semi-blogged about. As you may ... couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom ... of the technical work on it. Albert still helps me with experimental design, but I have a strong enough understanding of both the project and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... usually consists of four dishes. 2. Send the list of ingredients, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... figured I would make the best out of it. i introduced myself to the head ... stir fry or salad--both of which are offered nightly, so I'm always

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  also did a lot of stuff that's more fun than on-the-job hair dying and ... the recipes I used to keep myself sane over the past month and lots of ... listed third and fourth on my application. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Don't worry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... that you would do it for free, then you've hit the jackpot. Speaking of ... the rest of the night (morning?). I was, in fact, sitting around not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  stuff, we wouldn't be having oodles of editorials in the Tech talking about dining problems - and most likely the number of restaurants around ... the vision of iHouse and the events that we have planned for the coming

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a ... together a class. I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I ... the large numbers of very, very qualified applicants. It made reading

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the ... . Incidentally, the first use of “yikes” in an MIT Admissions blog post dates back ... a couple of these majestic creatures frolicking in the grass. Like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015