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Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...
Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few -
Blog / Admissions
Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.
year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule ... need to have submitted your application Part 1 by the time you interview -
Blog / Challenges
cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings
(or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... special, so who are you? You're a person who clings to it. You try even -
Blog / About Decisions
Pie No, not pi.
thinking, you're thinking "You have no idea what I had to go through! I was ... all aren't just names and random comments, you're people who I wanted to ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and -
Blog / IAP
Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing
surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not -
Blog / MIT Life
40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
with themselves. I intend no offense to your opponent, Aaron. The ... to quantum textbook (analytic solution to 1D time-independent ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach -
Blog / MIT Life
Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.
Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is not fun. Don't even start with your "wah wah wah I have to get up at 5 ... they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8 -
Blog / Admissions
Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…
decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... people when we read their applications. We imagine them coming to MIT, finding their niche, doing wonderful things - sometimes we even start to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Questions and answers
your MIT education taking you? What opportunities have been available to you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems -
Blog / MIT Life
Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.
powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most ... , and I should be fully prepared once I finish this post and get back to -
Blog / IAP
IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP ... 'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state ... opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in -
Blog / Announcements
MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET
, December 19, 3:14 PM EST. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... . If you need to reset your password, just go to apply -
Blog / Challenges
H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.
't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you're -
Blog / Challenges
i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness
want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
process trying hard to impress a group of skeptical judges with your ... , please remember to be kind to yourself. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Drink water. Support your family and community. Do not compare your beginning to -
Blog / About Decisions
Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.
. Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom -
Blog / Academics & Research
The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*
ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to ... -weird. Life gets very different very fast as you go through your senior year ... disciplines, you need a master's to get competitive engineering jobs. You wouldn -
Blog / Admissions
FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!
hours and you get to choose your session) each semester. You're only ... staffing the ambulance- you get to make your own schedule and of course you ... the robot's functions), a human player (who gets to throw balls around -
Blog / Admissions
FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!
addition to answering questions about your project, you may upload documents ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to ... Application, we ask you the questions we want to know. Imagine that you get into