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  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests ... testing requirements here. I’m happy to announce our decision to discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  would teach me more science than I’d get anywhere else.  So I went and ... note="from the math diagnostic test which all freshmen take"]math score ... is hard. [caption id="attachment_57242" align="aligncenter" width="463

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and ... 'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  assumed it meant I wasn't sharing my Play-Doh. But it turns out that she ... work and give me actual problems he faced that day to test my geometry ... 's, double 5's on the AP (Physics C is actually two tests: Mechanics and E

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  last thing I'd like to be doing right now. I'm actually pretty miserable ... knowing that despite how little tolerance I had left, I'd be doing it again ... our designs, which was actually pretty cool. I'd shown off my work in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i'd ... alright for the psets. Where would I be?" "Well... I'd say you'd be in the ... kresge that i couldn't [annotation note="unforunately, my bank account is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  paved, and I wish I’d known older her when I was a younger me. I’m excited ... different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... ’t explored yet. I think CMS is a great department for that. I wish I’d realized

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  allow students to pick their own advisors, and some take into account a ... professors tend to ask problem set and test questions without having to deal ... advantage of the smaller UAVs is that they can be flight-tested indoors -- it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  . So on this account, with a brilliant kid, you may rest assured that ... remarkable thing is captured by test scores or not (often not). And they can ... easily in cases where the talent is not also manifested in test scores and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  questions when I barely could follow along, and acing tests that I struggled ... even crossed my mind that the reason I felt like I’d never seen the ... , sophomore fall became a flash flood. Failed tests and dropped psets and

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

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they tested our ability to give presentations by asking us to design our own project where we would test a feature of the Hodgkin and Huxley model. My

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  something awesome or horrific on any given play (it's a loaded die) (and it ... - may be able to help me further refine this model to account for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . I did a little bit of accounting, a little bit of fundraising, a ... functioning work environment. The best part of my job was always working with

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  account will work. Director of Student Financial Aid, Daniel Barkowitz, will ... environment in which they work and study together. Find out about the many ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  addresses (1) the vital role that diversity, including racial diversity, plays ... rely on grades and test scores alone...[Indeed] MIT regularly denies ... opportunity, and shaping an environment in which all people can do their best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  people who tested out of a lot of our required courses and were already ... run around and play. I came back with a fiery analytical vigor. I ... people who, instead of thinking negatively of their environment or "should

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  their time. Students here work hard and play hard. During the year, they ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to ... abandoned. Go ahead and test your penmanship out. If you’re lucky, you may

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  'd also suggested that we start early, but I had tests on Monday and Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours on it, so I figured I'd be all right. I started out reasonably

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  's bonus questions was interesting and challenging, so I thought I'd test you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005