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  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the MIT "bubble," meet new people and reflect on both MIT culture as a whole ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can ... suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT ... bunch of sections separately, reviewing them to find out what you're not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  everyone on the outside. You get to hear people’s dreams, you get to see ... were...... Finals. On the other hand I was about to be able to go home ... than trying to learn about the school. During the Q&A you also get to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  New York safely!"]just as fun![/annotation] It was, however, nice to get ... ; Connecticut -> New York. We also stopped by New Jersey to practice before our ... ."]multi-state journey[/annotation] to Monsey in upstate New York for the NYU

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... do it” (Amelia Earhart). So if you get scared, “don't be afraid of your

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... on the ground All I wanna do is fly away 'Cause I'm trying to find the ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely ... that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my ... 't. And you get to pick to which group you belong. If you don't want to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... students arrive on the day of the competition, they will be assigned to small

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits ... my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... handle. But gods forbid if I'm supposed to face, head-on, the actual flaws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... the house instead of disaffiliating because I wanted to explore this new ... friends that he trusted. We eventually lived on a floor in New Vassar with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf, they will get your letter ... letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  together that much, since you really just needed to code your own solution ... the infinite, only to get ignored. In our next lab session, he asked me ... teammate was so shocked to find out that I have a twin that she wanted to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep ... past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  being the first in your family to go to college. Sigue leyendo. The ... my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  emailing the Admissions Office; I will try to follow up on your email ... new honors; it's okay just to email us and tell us about your achievement. Finally today, we'd love to get more of your comments about the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... on Friday. I’m continually running experiments for my UROP to prepare ... unexpected good news yesterday from my UROP supervisor—I get to attend CHI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018