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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... cooking, pika is more than happy to match you with a Big Cook in case you ... olds in attendance. A few hours in, my exhaustion level cracked past the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity’s complex relationship with the land...In this era of impending climate catastrophe, it is ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  kindergarten, in that "everyone is a potential friend and everything is a friend ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  September 12, 2008 - September 17, 2008 I spent a nice weekend in Mc ... friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement ... is already teaching AP English classes. We had a great time catching up

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... , dinosaurs in feudal Japan, a traveling carnival gone horribly wrong, and the ... decided on a production schedule, and Guild Camp began. In many ways, Guild

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  send in supplements is a different question all together. Jess: Hi Laura ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... in one), but there was a lot of legal discussion and things like that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always ... someone, somewhere, out there, who is better. Chesterton, as in "Chesterton's fence" Chesterton, once wrote that If a thing is worth doing, it is worth

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of ... physical manifestation of a terror only hushed by rationality. He’d lived in ... between two walls in a room that was suddenly too wet and too narrow. He

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... me to appreciate color pairing and fashion. This is atypical for a guy ... happened. Let me explain this to you. If you are going to be in a group shot

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  The February Updates & Notes Form (FUN) is required for Early Action admitted and deferred applicants, Regular Action applicants ... available in your application portal in late January and should be completed
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  what? Not everyone in the population is a drug dealer. So tell the story ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual ... MA. MIT-POPlab made an appearance in a byline of part of the exhibit Uneven

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  notice that Cyclops is kind of a total tool in X2? I really liked it when ... would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11) is a small, interdisciplinary major ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in ... planning. In particular, my main interest is in transportation, particularly

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for ... , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... , manufacturing, testing, and operating a radio controlled aircraft to meet mission
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  We have some important deadlines listed here, but please take a look ... deadline for Early Action is November 1. We accept test results from any test ... new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically ... over IAP a couple times, so just in case you missed it, here's an update

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for ... Sometimes" is at 1 p.m. followed by a Q&A with director Eric Byler and ... like funk, rap or hip hop, this is a CD you should have!)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004