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• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  kind of supplemental material that is very useful. I look forward to ... on the computer printout of the part 1" Yes, we are happy to accept ... to you is to start the application well in advance of the deadline in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  , especially when the thing you’re trying to anticipate is “how will a group of ... pigeon-themed elements, from the art on the outside wall to one of the ... Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... not need to do anything special to request or claim this extension

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  — it doesn't refer to course 3, which is materials science. 6-1 is ... decimal bear some reference to the level of difficulty or order you should ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a cannon and/or set on fire.   Ma! Pa! Big news from the big city

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... concert. The set is transcendent, and we're all in the frame of mind to let ... set. They changed the lights on each piece/shape of it individually to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest ... will present a summary of the findings in class on Monday. In the mean ... --they were derived from your answers to Homework problem number 1) or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and ... to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair*, or tie your shoes. So every time one of the aforementioned tasks has to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... time. But that leads me to the next part of this story. 2. "There is ... Frost to Billy Collins' coming-of-age poem "On Turning Ten" to childhood

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... all the material from recitation or from the online video lectures on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you ... perform between showings. This is, of course, talking about a group that ... cheap or old clothing from thrift stores and "edits" them to make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  've got a lot of work to do on their name Bryan: not quite hot as 007 Diana ... was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... : haha Diana: nah, that's just on drop date Diana: as much as baker is a

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  , or the life described in it, better. Think of your wonderful high ... future or telepathically reach the Admissions Office. So for now, try to ... . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  Senior House…   Nick H. ’18 is not planning to cover this with ... residents’ artistic impulses, for better or for worse. Some people paint ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... . Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  can get a lot out of it, which isn't a feeling that my coursework or ... super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019