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  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and ... schools seems obvious. Location matters, and the quality of academic ... problem set, and I actually care. No axis of the universe has actually

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  Apollo Landings, the role of the human and automated systems in a new lunar ... We study the computational basis of human learning and inference ... testing of children and adults. Our work is driven by the complementary

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... , more specifically 1st East, home of the Disco Dance Floor and other ... culture and history, and I highly recommend checking out a few of the past

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  the first floor"]TFL[/annotation] and for a second, paused and looked ... probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... treatment data of patients with head and neck cancer patients to study the ... expanding my horizons and becoming at least somewhat skilled in the realm of C

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  of you, it breaks my heart and I believe also breaks the heart of the ... , the dirtiest secret is that all of us are ourselves quite flawed, and if ... idea. I've talked to lots of candidates - and the ones who are just

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As ... to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira ... that generously-portioned shahi paneer and chicken pakora at the end of a ... living at the confluence of a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and an economic

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... first of two very profound e-mail moments. Out of the blue, I got a ... accurately reflect your command of the material and to encourage you to not let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an ... ! (And maybe the return of m_quinn but hopefully not.) So, in usual ... (The Deans of all the Ivy's and some other awesome schools you

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

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam ... difficulty trusting people. I’m spending the first half of Spring Break in New ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  read all of those applications at the same time and compare them side by ... have MIT as their first choice and all of them are probably quite ... , and other neat goodies. MIT is awesome and is one of the only (if not

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... essay may be the first time they are disclosing this aspect of their ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  than I did. And being accepted to MIT is not the be-all, end-all of life ... includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major ... , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  growling stomach, and make a beeline to the gates of heaven - also known as ... meals, and I savored every delicious mouthful. And now, in the blink of ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... defined budgets and expectations of the people you're living with ensures

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... with the piece of paper in front of me and nobody else. Reading

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  East Campus, home of the Emergency Pizza Button and the Motorized Couch ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  (Name that tune) Clearly today is July 4th, and thus the festivities ... the Baker BBQ Pits and then watching the show from the amazing roofdeck ... , I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006