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• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... to be the one to decide what the best use of your time is. I'd say most ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... introspective, which is ultimately the most important part of this process ... the drawing board. Even if a story or experience is compelling on its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  means you crossed one or more streets from main campus to get there. W is ... estate too. There's not much rhyme or reason to building names off of main ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... the tenth or eleventh week of each academic term...which, as I ... of you still working on your final decision about where to enroll next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  change of pace. Living on campus is incredibly convenient, but I sometimes ... the middle of the day, so I head to a library or coffee shop and catch ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . Each hall has its own, and the dorm is the umbrella to each of those ... -for-yourself. This is great for eating on a budget, dealing with allergies, or learning ... of a single time where everyone on hall is asleep during the semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  's called -- which is calculating the energy of bonded atoms vibrating or ... acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything ... analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or ... on whose behalf you can send mail and of which you are the only member

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  it is on campus. The ability to "favorite" or "bookmark" events that ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  pursuit of some discoveries, which I hoped to make.” (For context, this is ... upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  media is unsatisfying and how to best address that dissatisfaction. or, to ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... or some kind of conflict, external or internal), and through this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  mobile) to see a related annotation on the right hand side of the post (or ... olympiads. However, access to these examinations generally depend on what is ... their time of entry to MIT. It is perhaps worth noting that the GIRs are

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  how appreciative they are of our efforts. MIT’s mission is to use ... . Whether a student has a great college experience or not is really up to the ... number of advanced classes a student takes is never the reason why he or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  to many of the projector screens or external monitors on campus. You ... and more memory to work as they get more complex. This is why a lot of ... of salt and read up on online reviews to see if it holds up to what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... 'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  byproduct of language, or did language arise from music? "Music is auditory ... beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015