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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more ... , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or ... type of question, the normative (as opposed to the “positive”) or the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this ... reading and posting to this blog will be new or first time Bloggers. To you ... will not hesitate to throw your two cents in to any and all conversations

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  , or TOEFL, in addition to the required SAT Subject Tests. Q. I am an ... Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA ... - whether it's making a movie for Michel Gondry or going to see an amazing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  all the shows and concerts I've seen or been involved in. I'd like to ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... meaning—but we must all have our own meanings to keep going. And, in truth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  or Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (to name a few ... to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to ... beautiful, and (some) mathematicians do use calculus in their day-to-day life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I ... enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... chances on me, between acceptances to choirs and support in writing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  bed in the morning...I will be cranky. So when I needed to stay up to ... habit has persisted when I need to stay up on a long road trip or, y ... office last week, and I didn't want those clips to go to waste. In many

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... , July 8th, MIT and Harvard sued ICE in federal court to prevent these ... MIT has participated in a legal challenge to immigration policies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  live in MacGregor? Or will you just get randomly assigned to them as a ... usually there are only one or two rooms in each suite that are open to be ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  SAT or toefl untill I completed my 12th. In june or july i came to know ... math subject in either level I or II?" Yes, that is totally fine. You ... ). ------------------------------------- SpeckJr wrote: "I'm definitely sending in some supplementary material to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... to rush October or November scores. If, as Matt says, Thanksgiving ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... ’ve grown a quarter of an inch in a week. (Or, like, some unmeasurable non

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... about something, in the shower or while walking home from school, and then ... because someone or another recommended them to me. The notebook also means I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... nesting in the gleaming lofts of the Grading Hotel, in Room 99 or 100 or ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice ... intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice ... be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021