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Blog / How to Human
The Quest Continues and into the open world i go
to the gospel of Spotify Premium. Apply to grad school? Jury's still ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you -
Blog / Events
Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?
One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web ... one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?
conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…
of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... Research and a lab in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program. Xiang has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT -
Blog / Admissions
My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school
science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester
on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of the program. The Application Process I had heard of the program from my ... immediately applied. I thought I would be somewhat qualified for the job now -
Blog / How to Human
and i try to find my place
offer me the pats of condolences and, instead, I'll be pierced by their ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that -
Blog / Personal Travel
Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor
immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.
'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that -
Blog / MIT Life
1 day in the life of an MIT student
Office) where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... The unabridged version of a semi-recent, semi-typical, but memorable ... check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long -
Blog / IAP
IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?
three-week course, we entered production for Season 4 of Science Out Loud ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with -
Blog / Admissions
So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…
ended up applying to MIT was my sheer stubbornness. Most of the kids at my ... website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.
can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many -
Blog / Life after MIT
Good Luck Jo-Jo!
serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil
had VR capabilities! The locals also offered us a selection of home ... and rhythms. More Fred shenanigans. The science of disaster films ... Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT -
Blog / Announcements
Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you
applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2018. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your ... competitive: 538 students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 23. And as -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.
once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your -
Blog / Academics & Research
class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy
Turing machine, which is a form of universal type of machine that can ... 't go too deep into the theoretical/solid state science behind some of the ... I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and -
Blog / How to Food
dinners with friends my wallet is crying
night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from