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• 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 / 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
• 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 / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to lead a team, manage a complex organization, or found your own company
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are ... , DO NOT skip multiple lectures or neglect to turn in psets. MIT courses ... cases, you cannot do well by not going to lecture or not turning in psets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  ) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or ... for several days; in the worst, a week or more. And the Internet will ... heat, light, or the ability to cook food, boil water, and generally care

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... to walk around Killian court inside, or 2 hours and 15 minutes if you ... changed a little in the last century or so? If you think this

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  , that is, or can't find it -- you have to pay it in person, at an office ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  neighborhood. When I was in high school – i.e. too old to be trick-or ... ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... number of people couldn’t hear or see anything, forcing some people to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September ... probably won't directly inform anything that I want to do in the future. Now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  or not, it's a privilege not to be treated like this in the workplace ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... the first to speak, always be the first to call out. But in recent years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  wanted to participate in a math or science competition. I didn't get a ... , or send in a score report? Also, I just recently convinced my school to ... is in the art portfolio, or can it be any art we want to send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they ... , there seems to be more interest in the program this year than ever before ... new students and upperclassmen. To be considered in the EA round, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015