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• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  said NO to MIT: First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to ... Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... who want to make a lot of money go into the financial sector, people who

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an ... college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to ... , expecting about twenty people to stop by over the next two hours. Instead

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... during speed dating sessions and discovered a way to predict whether

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  many things. It's when seeing each other on campus brings a smile to ... desire to leave. You wake up with them and the thought of getting out of ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  was not founded by John Harvard. He just donated a ton of money to the ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... saying goodbye to my family at the airport. As expected, there was a show

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I ... 's not entirely true, there was a rock gym in Houston that I'd been to a ... to be able to orient yourself in such a way that you can stand on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  rental car? Will you get a bus pass? Search early. The best deals are the ... might be occupied by every single one of your roommates you want to avoid ... apartment or go shopping by yourself or even go to the gym to clear your head

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  procrastination. Been there, done that. Also, get a sturdy portfolio to hold your ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  and guests! Ofc we had to get a group photo[/caption] Speaking to all of ... made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... experience back home to students who might never get the chance to visit

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  move out. by friday, when i left, 2 east was a ghost town, stripped and ... ="some manga, and also i want to start pachinko by min jin lee ... nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ="91612" /] Our design team made over 50 balloon-animal dogs by hand, a reference to ... , a reference to The Son of Man by René Magritte. Angela, our head of ... That Lead to Love, others suggested by MINCE members.  A few of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... world around us, created by a different wiring and development of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  just highlight your essay and hit Ctrl+Shift+C to get a word count ... extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... is across from a piano. If there was a MicroQuiz to be had, you best

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  time, because parents think that's what they need to get into college ... comments that entry received: "So, what can our students do to get your fair ... for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  Procrastination by Addicted2Success. It's a web app, no need to download anything ... , everywhere I go. You don't need to purchase a Kindle, just get the app ... were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015