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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... like little girls for about a week beforehand. What if we screwed up ... ? Anyone looking for their college radio fix at midnight on a Sunday would be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  moderated mailing list, for everything from clarifying COVID policies to ... monotony of sending these emails, I changed my email sign-off for almost ... them; if you're asking for something or have something to genuinely thank

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  leave us with some next steps advice for parents and families who are ... our favorites on future episodes. Chris, thanks so much for joining us ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• 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

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... January 6th, 2021. If you plan to apply to MIT for Regular Action, you do

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

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  's start over. The other day this fabulous idea for a blog entry came from a ... here. Forget that. For four years, I attended a pretty standard public ... -30. There was a club for everyone, and if there wasn't you could start it - we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... dropout who had run away to join the circus (neither of us could afford the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  full of thoughts. The professor tells us to think less. She tells us to be present. She tells us to consider how our body feels before we ... getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and ... album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi-fi so I could take video calls for my new job (which I had already started

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  coordinating an entire trip for us to make it happen. the last couple of days ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for ... incredible. this year, there were a few locations in consideration for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... , full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  . I believe it qualifies the company for the “Best Intern Recruitment ... for MIT students to perform research at Automobili Lamborghini.) 2 ... of us heard a freshman pronounce 3.091 as “thirty-ninety-one” and 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often ... encourage us to wash our dishes, and that’s worked better than anything else

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... food restrictions that people had (for instance, Hendrik was a vegetarian ... control your sleep schedule? We were never off camera. They were filming us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  . Instead of separating us by interest, the department program is tailored for ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  chance for us to talk to some of the inmates, and for them to talk to us ... backtracking out of the vicinity of the trains toward the parking lots, for ... got into his car. He set his GPS for Framingham, MA, slightly over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to ... side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led us to Wayland, my small, moderately nowhere-ish hometown. Surprise

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010