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  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  with A LOT of anxiety about whether my writing came across as ... . This is where you try to connect with the readers and show them who you ... or profound. People are able to get in even with spelling errors in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  some tours and get judges, and generally just mentored the freshmen with ... -in-residence Nick Meyer gave a talk on the balancing MIT life with starting a company ... others and some function optimally with lower levels. InsideTracker creates

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  devours all available comfort foods and hibernates with their beloved ... with my friends (Figure 3): Figure 3: Categorical overview of computer ... , 2016.   This month, I logged a total of 99 hours with an overall

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  with a dean at S3 (they are wonderfully nice people. they will give you ... , and who you are in isolation, as we charge forward with our lives. Many ... and night dew with strangers to passers who asked "how?" one answered

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  ’t confound “enjoyable” with “probably a good thing” but I do value the enormous ... other people’s idea of it, or I guess with some inevitable influence, but ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... breakfast bar, and gobble up. At 11:30 I have a Skype call with a casting ... onto the icenetwork.com homepage with a highly unattractive picture of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  season with Alex S. '13, who was here to represent Boeing, Irina O. '15 and ... with maple bacon); tomato basil, which is absolutely a donut because it ... this banana bread recipe she found online (but with chocolate sprinkles

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

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  dinner with my brother (MIT '17), aunt, and uncle (who live in Boston), and ... balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main ... /creativity Ugh. This is a big one that overlaps with "respect

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Brass Rat design.   The night started off with the entire class ... goddess Athena dousing herself with a bucket of ice water. We also feature a ... " and "much cool". The bezel is also a scratch-n-sniff, with the available

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  many students will attend this year. To help with the uncertainties, we ... -to-late April with an update on what you've been up to since our last contact ... items or bribes. Submit a whole new application. Bombard our office with

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  impatient with all of the drama. Two fellow MIT alums (Davie '12, Daniel '12 ... started with Contact, then read Isaac Asimov's Foundation triology, then the ... Haushofer's Die Wand and am now on my third Christa Wolf book; I started with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  the year moseying about. This was not my first camping adventure with ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... Graduate Resident Tutors (GRTs) Chris and Finn arrived at one point with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Emily K.-L. ‘16. About a week ago I sat down with one my best friends ... to be able to share some of her insights with you. I also hope her ... Gallactica—but with Twitters. It’ll sound very, very familiar if you’ve ever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  many students will attend this year. To help with the uncertainties, we ... page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-late April with an ... . Submit a whole new application. Bombard our office with way too much stuff

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... surviving without an open stream of communication with friends who have gone ... with ~two miles every few days (IT WAS SO PAINFUL), then one afternoon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two ... alarm clock will decide to not work on that day and I will be left with an ... making you think outside the box and pound your head with the nearest

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent ... campus six years ago I took every opportunity to talk with current students ... my first 5K last year with two sisters and a member of one of our

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my ... an entire conversation with a guy across the plane, using only our eyes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013