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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  complete sentences rolling off your tongue, and soon, you're starting to make ... want to find out more, you're welcome to read our class blog! Each ... how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly ... , you're currently doing regular action selection for domestic applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about ... . Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases ... their best: A love letter to P-sets Michael C, '16 and Psets from hell
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The ... on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... the opportunities available to them at their current or most recent
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... . When I make appointments to "get coffee" with someone, I do not actually

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to ... ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... to get ahead in my assignments because this upcoming week is so packed ... Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say ... 've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second round, discussions started to get more energetic. Interestingly, two ... teams that hadn’t yet made a satellite scrambled to get the pieces they ... and the negotiation phase began, teams jumped out of their chairs to get

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  reflecting on what has inherent value to you, relative to your own aspirations ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I ... , MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home ... sophomore Emily TenCate almost immediately put together an initiative to buy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  Revere's top grad bound for MIT By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item ... our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow seniors. "The fact is our high school memories are going to be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006