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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  strongly recommend asking one of your math or science teachers to write one ... welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  that I could go from here to 3rd overall, but I did much better in the ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... in MIT Medical was also a bad move – other people's thinking seemed to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my ... talk to in quarantine, it is nice to at least feel like i'm connecting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to ... in 32-123? Thanks to Uncle Jim and Aunt Maura for the super-cute video.

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in ... practiced landing twice, once in each role. Then, it was time to go out solo

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in ... explored and changed course. It is okay to have been in the school orchestra

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... —doesn’t take long to complete—and like my time in UPOP, the application provides ... than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write ... teaches the subject that you want to major in. You do not need to choose the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... Crossing marathons or glorious relaxation. Not-so-sadly, this means I ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some ... postpone project work to clear the time. In general, my philosophy is not to miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my first elementary school, they had to ask the school to not put me in ... , they had to ask to put me in the gifted program, despite me scoring 50

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in ... go to lecture, and having a good lecturer is basically what makes or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, or SHASS, to ... typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... didn’t know what state our robot was currently in, or if we were going to ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... , but i found such solace in the sporadic episode or two whenever i was tired and wanted to be alone. playing guitar — i started in quarantine

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  group would be in Burton Conner to help run floor events and meet freshmen ... in apartments since the start of the pandemic. we aren't able to gather ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  like a writing major from MIT in addition to my 3A would allow me to do ... writing seriously, creatively, and/or experimentally. I write about polymers ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  "every government dollar invested in energy R&D returns 40-fold to the ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President ... very well in the job market when they graduate, and will continue to do

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... nothing wrong with dropping a class. Or two. Or three. It is important to ... classes can only be taken in either the fall or spring semester and if you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015