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  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... is important and what you would like for a reader to know. Student: Oh ... formula that will unlock the secret to getting admitted to the college of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr ... , lives at pika, but he wasn't at dinner for me to get a picture of. Too bad ... . For example, over the weekend, I went to Random Hall for boffer combat

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , Dugan and I got to sign up for a new Barefoot Contessa mailing list, from ... you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party ... . Sometimes she has to go get some flowers or something from her friends, so she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  appointment with a doctor (which we had to pay for separately) in order to get ... for a project funded by NASA. He sent me to the library, which got me ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest ... If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by ... applicants who are admitted. It's hard to get into MIT. Being deferred means

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... every morning, and get ready to go out into the world, the small ritual of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “The basketball team comes back early on December 26th to get ready for ... you want to get recruited to swim for MIT you should email the coaches ... bridge to campus. I stopped by Dunkin’ to get some breakfast and then

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  is the time to get your my.mit.edu account and get started! Oh, and by ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to ... together :p) they'll choose one for you should you get something other than a ... skip CPW, do you get assigned randomly for Orientation? Or is there some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... for Steve to call during the week upset about something, it was unusual for him to call me on Sunday and ask me to call his home. I wondered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... ethical dilemmas. Bonus links to two of the earlier readings for the class ... class doesn’t get too abstract and is directly applicable to real life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report ... Wah Bus ride away from Boston, we decided to head down for the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... challenge for me. I often stay after school to get tutoring from my teachers ... fast pace we've been going at has been a struggle for me to keep up with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  students and I got to get a feel for what kinds of work chemists are expected ... you're being chased by some large jungle cat and can't get away fast ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT ... writing prompts, for when you want to put feelings into words tales from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all ... each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  time. Each day was scheduled for "two" lectures, one given by Alexander ... , but for an MIT crowd, I want to see the numbers move! Maybe they didn ... that topic compared to something like LLMs, I got pretty bored by other

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a decision. Unfortunately, this decision was to study for my upcoming exams ... friends in New House at 11 PM to sprint past Dorm Row, down the Infinite

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008