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• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  once while I tried to cruise and swore out loud in front of a family with ... The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... were immediately put in touch with a travel agent to book a flight to ... 's a $150 pen, we don't want to just rip it open, we're in college." "Oh

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  picnic. All in all, it was a tragic end to a magical day, but a car karaoke ... monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely fashion, so in an effort to force myself to write, this will be a rambling ... 've been in previous years due to Being Old or smth (tbh mainly hosedness

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log into ... you wish to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... think of it, this is totally creepy in a Brave New World kind of way ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights ... among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics ... to college in Boston, like heading to Wellesley or running the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... School, in Deerfield, Ill., says a member of the 2006 graduating class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... a good grade in these really difficult classes.  But this leads me to my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until ... to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  consider poetry to be a list of junk in my suitcases with line indentations ... possessions does not in fact include a room at pika, thanks to technical details ... , grading for the class that convinced me to major in Physics a year ago, not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  . Recently, I've decided to take on a second major (in Comparative Media ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it ... self-reflection in a way. There’s obviously classes you have to take to ... summer commuting ~1 hour to work each direction, in traffic. As a result, I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007