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  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  to send us any scores at all, so I recommend using your four free score reports on each test to send scores to four schools you're considering. Also ... . Dan wrote, "Will I get to meet you at MITES?" Yes! I'll be around all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  to get into the city. If you're coming out to Boston on a plane anytime ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT ... basically, Adam's going to get into MIT -- if you have a professor who already

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  to get somebody to guess "stick pickles into your nose and ears?" The ... person has 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many phrases as ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive ... clueless about college, so he was like "Well I don't get it, but I'm glad you're ... , you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So ... people you know are going to be your classmates for the next four years ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  agencies. These will be directly uploaded into your file in plenty of time to ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... . When we get them, the folders are all set to go -- it looks so easy! But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours ... the real world and how intentions mean squat if you're not getting it ... . Training.   There you go, you're now on your first step to becoming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... collectively get together today to create the English language from scratch, then ... a general amendment to language, which would be worth getting past any

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  .001, 6.001, etc. While this can be a great way to get your feet wet in a ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home ... that they were trying to get people to think about and get involved in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  decision your gut really wants to make- but practices like these help draw ... your mind that always seem to elude you. After this round of soul searching, it’s time to change course, to take the necessary steps to get you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own ... about your ability to eat regularly and properly, the Pilot 2021 is not ... your dorm—you’ll only have to cook once every week or two, and can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  , leaving only to find Challenger, another beast of 5W. As the night gets ... and mutter 'mmph five more minutes' but the sunlight inspired me to get ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to the site, the online voters will "make the final choice, which will be ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009