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  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  story: my first term at MIT, I had passed out of single variable calculus ... sort of community service, do you think id have a chance at getting a ... applications after spending much of last week reading international applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... 's most of the freshman class!) signed up to clean up harbors, work at the ... 's literally opportunities at every click of a mouse. Each week, a kind

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  the “other side” of hiring at the MIT career fairs. Both of them agreed ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some ... at the highly developed end of the Chinese spectrum, is chalk full of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... nagging at you about your SAT scores now and there's still technically one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  anything, for that matter, coming at me at a 45-plus-degree angle.   < ... degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs ... Scholar Programs offer a diverse range of classes in visual arts, sports

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... important if you're considering studying at MIT!) But for those of you that ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever ... One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... ), 8 HASS subjects (including at least one in each category of Humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... engineering. Brian was nice enough to offer some insight into the process at the ... the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... counseling at Norfolk Academy, in Virginia, says one of his seniors was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... at MIT. We've been best of friends ever since. Bill P. '19, middle, was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  present. I could live in Seattle, even. At the end of 2019, I made my ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most challenging coursework available to you at your high school, treating both AP
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  at MIT. Some of these include: Meal plans 5-star restaurants ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... my floormates and stare at their food until they offer me some, or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014