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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... -minute standardized tests and subject tests have been crammed for and taken; changes to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  Aside from classrooms and auditoriums and dorms, MIT also plays host to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the ... the tunnels to either test my sense of direction or shy away from the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  accounts, I am not a good pianist. I haven't played piano seriously since ... as the piano-conductor for the band; that is to say, I both play piano ... coordination challenge—I have to play, conduct, and change[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  awesome anti-establishment monologue from a play called Another Antigone and ... when (if?) my schedule ever finally calms down. But I'd hate to drop it ... into full-fledged novels or even short stories, so I'd be thrilled to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  , play-work, play, work, play, sleep. And before I truly feel settled down ... lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college, graduate, grow up, ID badge around your neck, swipe-in-swipe-out, meetings

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... failed test. However, with extra time over the summer and this semester to ... I'd purposefully try to do anything differently; however, I am also

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  gates of LAX. [caption id="attachment_53948" align="aligncenter" width ... . [caption id="attachment_53949" align="aligncenter" width="169"] the boy ... , talking about setting up our accounts. There was a slight hiccup with my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... 've done a lot more running, I've read a lot of accounts from legitimate ... playing Rush (heh)! Girls chanting the Michael Jackson classic "Come on, don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... the grass, some were even tossing frisbees. I told Matthew that I'd

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... , wow, I’m here. [caption id="attachment_57797" align="aligncenter" width

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  not, then I’d recommend it. The author, Pepper White, got his Masters ... engineering, but I thought that today I’d focus on a great idea by MIT Medical ... . So, you can hold team members accountable by sending emails like “Get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I'd ... they'd hire me. They asked me to come in for pre-employment testing ... was, too. Otherwise I'd have nothing to do this summer. The research

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who's been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here's a bit of good news - we got 'em! They'll be loaded into the system tonight. Now stop worrying! ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... of all, I disliked play dough. I hated the way that the kids around me ... gruel and I'd look in disgust at how they had ruined the very nice thing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... without any accountability. it felt at times that no one ever felt the ... toxicity, so it wasn't entirely your fault -- i just wish that hadn't played

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021