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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , here's my proposal: At the very least, I post this here to give you a ... you to disagree with my thesis, but I'd rather that you help me craft a ... the next week or two, I'll continually edit my letter (so check back for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept QuestBridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of recommendation, but…
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an MIT application. We feel that the QuestBridge application provides enough information for us to evaluate students…
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are ... 're supposed to leave, Thursday Jan.29th, I have my Physics final. Since the only ... it up as: Physics-0 Chris-1. So I raced back to my room to throw all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  comprehend. One such event was my trip across the Niagara Falls border-crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... all these cool places, but I vowed that I would take some time during my ... dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  Nearly fourteen years after graduating, I still wear my Brass Rat every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... definition. My high school rank. My highest test grade at MIT. My lowest test grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008. ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... MyMIT account and you will need to know your username and password

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. You ... process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... as my childhood home transformed before my eyes, shedding its former

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I centered my self-worth around academics and college admittance. So, imagine

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  actually felt my body. i felt my muscles wrapped around my arms and legs, i felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt grounded inside my body, i felt its shape around me. i've spent long enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think of the light filtering through the pink curtains of my bedroom in the ... evenings I’d spend splayed across my couch with a book, I feel as if I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019