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  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... declines, are you likely to look for another student like them? Sometimes we ... /university by May 1. You do not need to submit additional documents, but if you

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 reply date for ... should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call your school to ... declines, are you likely to look for another student like them? Sometimes we

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  compound, secologanin, to find out whether any of these new substrates react ... for summer research programs my GPA is too low for me to be accepted ... Wild Party or prefrosh who want to know how to get into MIT 1

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... lead to big highs, but I figured they’d be outweighed by even bigger lows ... ’d come home and lie on the floor for a couple hours to slowly recoup my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used ... family for everything they did for us, including helping us get our ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no ... fun thing to do is go chairing down the tunnels! Cook for yourself for ... then we get the whole " YOSDFOAEYAOSDFKLEW YOU   C O O OK FOR YOURSELF

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... I'm going to be real, I'm here for one sole purpose: SHAMELESS SELF ... by MIT students. Our main mission at MIT+K12 Videos is to show folks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  him to free Sirius. No way did he plan for Sirius to get captured ... , allow me to describe the books I’ve read this semester. Boneshaker by ... this book to me for over a year, but it took me forever to pick it up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... 't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by aspects of all of the sciences with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... Californians what Dunkin Donuts is to New Englanders: it is so familiar and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are ... answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  by your mom, asking you to come home because they missed you? they ... effort for nothing. we spent all that time preparing to run away, we got a ... likely to fail the second. cj: … dan: just stay with your parents for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them ... -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write their own letter and not answer ... , we would accept any current teacher for the B Evaluation. I also get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah, text me where" → Go to recitation → Start a new blog post Go on a voice ... , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed ... must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... have been exacerbated by my relationships. As I sit in a New York City

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... get really good at it and they'll never make an error by going into the ... , which is one of the top three journals in biology. And I get to be co

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  't really like the new curriculum, but for the most part, it seems to me that ... incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a ... apparently covered the original room number (32-123) with a new number for the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  to 9am, which I...was not awake for. We all started the day by working ... out of the hotel by noon and are taxied over to the new hotel with the ... area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020