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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of schools (with some variation due to personal preference), and all the same

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  the energy diagrams for the components of solar cells and LEDs and saw ... and music classes, and a lot of them have been great in the sense that ... in the current era of environmental and climate doomerism, 6.2540 is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  edges of their seats in excitement and wonder why the Superbowl exists ... you will later regret as you gnaw through the fibrous lump of homework ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂 ... week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  when the pandemic first hit. And that was a bad time for me. Looking at ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my ... worksessions and game nights. Because having something on the calendar keeps me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... forward to, and I'm psyched about next semester, because for the first time ... more in love with them and more and more out of the not-love I'm in with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... the usual chitchat and pamphlets. My dad dropped me off at the venue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... must have had came together. She cried, yelled, and barged out of the ... ’m not with my dad.  And I’m okay with that. As Eugene of the Try Guys

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... grades, and after the loss of my Uncle, I started to look to food as a ... progressed in 6th grade, and I found myself being scared to eat many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  . Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can ... around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  of the greatest weekends of my life, and I am so thankful for having ... full list of the CPW Schedule is here.  There are so many events and I ... what that would be like and the type of person you would be away at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... Boston concert? The opener was Empress Of, and I really liked her energy on stage. Except we were on the floor, and this group of really tall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  the sake of learning itself, and the emphasis I was placing on the ... a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... for fun, and when I checked things out, the "just for fun" classes put

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I went to Japan⁠—which was every year of high school. the second and ... receive such monumental news that I read and reread the message dozens of ... pictures of me with him. I cried a lot. I spent the first few days of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years. I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  ;   First, here's Danny demoing the World's Worst Spoon, which him and ... institutions.   I did this! You can read my liveblogs of the conference and ... couldn't build it, but I volunteered to provide the vocals, and so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  , which was sort of interesting.) I showed the outfit to Adelaide, and she ... , and of course, frozen pizza. I also try to throw together the occasional ... for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  report that there was a median of 0 days between making the request and ... . The smallest number of percentage points I fought for was 2.2 and the ... those types of regrades and ended up with the same letter grade. vi

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  school and it is one of the best videos of all time. It is tangentially ... visit the main campus and generally explore other directions of Cambridge ... from one of the first planetary bodies in our early solar system, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014