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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  road visiting schools, meeting students and conducting MIT Central Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the Class of 2028?

  Check out our First-year class profile page to find out more about the members of the Class of 2028.  
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  might lead to burning out. This is just what my junior year has to be like. This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the ... upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... golf balls. (As of today, that is still the extent of my chemical ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  MIT's >_<), is fairly flexible, because it's designed to let you ... left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year ... . (Coincidentally, my brother is also named Kevin. Relevant to you? Nope, but you read

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  now hand twins. That is the only episode of "Friends" that I have ever ... . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class with more males than females--since the gender ratio in Course 10 is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  this year is 12% down from 14% last year. I know that many of you will ... selected during Regular Action. Nevertheless, The Nance Effect is a great place to discuss whatever is on your mind.

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  We got here safely, and we’re having a blast. I’ll write a longer entry when I find free wireless, but right now it’s costing 3 euros an hour and I…

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly ... morning! The sun is coming up over Denver, CO, and it is a beautiful day out ... conclusion that, in fact, South Station is just bad; Union Station is beautiful

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... for. Most MIT students take an average of 1 or 2 finals a semester (and ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT, I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  group was now smaller to about 6 of us and it felt solid. This is it, I ... year, I thought to myself now this is it. My best friend is talking to me ... . Which one is the real version? I think. The one that I knew? Or the one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U.S. school systems but may be adapted for international school use. Many international schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart ... " is not the end of the journey. The next couple of months will not be ... this is the answer that all our applicants want to see when the decisions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  computational efficiency. Even still, there is - yes, truly! - an arts side of MIT ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... learned that for me, one remedy is to create. I decided to pick up art again

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there’s a swim test! There’s an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming…
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ="incidentally, admission is free for MIT students"]Museum of Fine Arts[/annotation]with a ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And this is our first semester doing just that. We actually have made jokes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018