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• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break ... representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing graduate schools, some of whom said "you applied to our graduate program

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of wind chill that eats Jack London novels for breakfast. 10:00 AM: Toast ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... congratulated me. I asked him to tell me about MIT, and he sort of spread his ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  to london this weekend! [annotation note="part 1 of 2 for traveling ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab was graded, i was still passing 0% of the tests. i needed to sleep, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Arizona, and ... own study of female faculty in medical schools. The University of Rhode

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of ... from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  (okay, that's not really abroad!) to London to Paris to Seoul... I just ... . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  (and other universities) I will have a problem of some sort? (VISA, or ... ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007