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  quarter, if your school uses a quarter-based system). Trimester schedule If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your first

• Explore MIT on your own

  [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual ... rabbit hole deep into the digital MIT universe...we consider that a success
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  STEM programs

  and excitement of a college like MIT.  Here’s an incomplete list of ... students come from a wide variety of contexts and may not be able to access ... students PRIMES-USA, a free, year-long research program in math open to
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  Transfer eligibility

  entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms ... second bachelor’s degrees—even if you are interested in pursuing a
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• Discover / The MIT education

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... behind thesis-ing (as a 2A major, I’m not actually required to do one). ??????? So I’ve mostly been asked the question "what are you doing" in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... hiker—I don’t do this on a consistent basis but it’s the perfect getaway ... focused on what I liked to do for fun, I’d always be able to find a job. I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... 's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... students here do a UROP? I worked with C. elegans all four years here, beginning from freshman spring. Although doing UROPs are fun and a nice way to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  Dumbledore. WHAT?! I was stunned. What. A. Ridiculously. Nice. Thing. To. Do ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... dissatisfied with the idea of working as a software engineer and longed to do ... astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... was far too headstrong and honest and bold to do that. And in a way, I ... the main filter is: Can I see myself doing this as a career in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they ... into a selective college, but what you wanted to do more than anything ... second of your time. Applying sideways, as a mantra, means don't do things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  you CAN do it.   A Penny for Your Thoughts   *Quotes that ... school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where you do it." Jennifer '17 (Alpha Phi & Baker) - "Take a break for a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  course, I did what a lot of us do in the wake of new confidence. I ... do a lot in the water. I was able to move around, fin-less and floater ... Theory, and I think it had very little to do with a horrible couple of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015