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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  issues with your host. Things to note about your host: No students is ... . Be open to exiting the comfort zone. Really, no one is going to judge ... meet each other, and most of you won’t know anyone else. There are no

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating ... pursue the sport. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how I ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... necessarily all good, as it has also led to “unable to say no” sorts of ... ’re more fun! I have no idea how the heck they got two fish out of these

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  major, you think math is pretty cool, too. It’s nice doing math with no ... exciting than the proofs in the previous sections. I am pretty sure no one is ... are no good analogies to real life. Sometimes you get stuck rereading a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve ... long it’s like a reflex and you no longer actively feel excited about it ... afterwards. No one’s life story is that neat. My essays were restrained. My

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  I am aware that it is no longer IAP, but I figure it’s better late ... body’s horizons. That’s right: no mandatory meal plan over IAP. During ... random food-adventures. I love cooking (even though at times I have no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... possible. I also have a landline. I have absolutely no idea what to do with a landline. I also have no idea what to do with the whiteboard or the shelves

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  there is no “right” answer. Hopefully you know this already, but ECs don’t have a standard set of questions we ask each applicant. There are no math problems to solve and there is no way to ‘study’ for the interview. Each EC

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  subject matter. When there was no response, I took an upperclassmen’s advice ... since I was a freshman with no lab experience, she mostly wanted to know ... the semester on pass/no record, I found the answers to most of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  of my couch! Brazil for two months people. Eu vou trabalhar no ... world of social media, might need this small reminder that they have no ... perfect, most attractive and largest fish in the lake. You have no idea what

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  , because MIT only accepts the most flawless human beings on the planet." NO ... , when I'm no longer on the team, that all my hard work was part of a ... for feeling good about himself; the thought of no longer doing so is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  with no way around it. From what I have read, you must have taken ... 's possible for me to take at my school (honors, accelerated, etc.) but thats no ... feel as though no other school will be able to give me as great of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... there was no one at MIT that I felt comfortable calling. I sense some ... basically no one on campus who I would describe as a close friend. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  ). People in Cheyenne love boots. No. Listen. They really love boots ... with their auditorium. So we were going to be in the gym. With no air ... ever been, and I will say no more. Finally, we got to Taos around 12

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to ... never looked back. “There is no human face to the science of physics,” he ... had no idea what a major in Comparative Media Studies would entail, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no ... should work on to make my writing better? No one had ever said that to me ... writing? No way. I wish I could tell you that I took his advice and made an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , so, you got me. There was no ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny ... wrong: it certainly was no easy ride, and I still have vivid memories of ... cookies and cake. History at MIT, I quickly learned, is no joke (chris here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  -win team behind a new no-huddle offense and a line that lost two starters to ... place where there's no tug-of-war between football and academics ... which no classes or labs are scheduled, giving students a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... mention that the topics were covered swiftly and in-depth. Make no mistake ... familiar sights on campus? No idea. But, you ask, did you learn? Did you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , look no further!) Basically there are heavy steel cables which run ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be ... , Mason '10, Sam '07, and me posing in front of the bridge. And no walk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009