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• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... folders are your complete admissions files; the green cards associated with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... didn't want to put any pressure on her." Ted Pounds knows what the school ... to leave my mark on the world."

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of ... to call the American Consulate in St. Petersburg to get connected to ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  on the T, it took 45 minutes to go (compared to the usual twenty ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript. Please note ... official transcript to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your ... school representative to be considered official. This applies for high
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application ... includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  extra-curriculars or achievements it looks for on your application; rather ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... Community Day, to celebrate their upcoming reopening at the new location. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  was on the software required to get the aircraft working together, and ... clear what course number was going to be on my registration forms. That ... tense?] So while others were attending orientation programs on "how to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference ... smile to your face, even amidst all the bad. Here at MIT, we take them all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  purchase meal tickets and how to get to Lobby 10, and shuffling through ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want to hear about the spontaneous adventure you took today. You’re worried ... of little pieces? Me too. I want to hear how you’re actually, really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we ... organization:   Time to stock up on Staedtler Muji Sharpie pens of an ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... (somebody out there better pick up on this reference). Consequences to doing ... homework. This is what happened to me on Sunday. I was working on this

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... biology rn (get excited) The grad school post. How applying to grad

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... working on p-sets. Personally, I'd like classtime to be geared more towards ... coming out on top by figuring out how to, I don't know, fix the boat, I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... my room both attempting to iron stuff on a chair,[annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019