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• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in class Introductory Chocolate Tasting Sports Statistics; How to Manage ... .606: Introduction to Stagecraft. How awesome is that? Here's the course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  people if that wasn’t clear yet. The first step was figuring out how to ... looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... variations of "aaahhhhhh." So we wanted to make a graph showing how frequently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... former Associate Director of Admissions https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to ... lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to give some advice on how prospective students —  and their parents —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... shirt. Some things just don’t matter to me anymore. Go hike for 4 months ... makes me happy* with the people I like**, when and how I want to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... recommendations to the Faculty and the Dean for Student Life; (c) encouraging

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... useful, except how to be a hosted prefrosh. Jon and my host lived on Conner

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  also want to know how it felt being in the minority, being that not that ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an ... when it's time for me to go, Or an injury I will give you.

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

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... any guy won back-to-back US Open titles (Federer won last year, he's looking to win again) Ok, that's enough pretending that I know about tennis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to ... and I know that I know how to keep moving forward. All through this ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to ... zipped shut for I want your beauty to come from within.   Your teeth are fragments of stone that I tumbled against each other for weeks,  to smooth

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... Rock Band). But that's enough on cocoa for know; back to the blog entry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... coaches" or the like, but you should feel free to ask for help making sure ... "grading" your essays for how many fancy adjectives you use or anything like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004