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• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... wearing. With so many more people walking by all the time, I started to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... 't even know I wanted to do it until a couple of weeks ago. But they did say ... by one to announce their prizes. While HackMIT gave out the main prizes

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile ... -France program to give a crash course on Parisian culture. She pointed out a neat ... RATP (which I'll get to shortly). A photo of Madeleine station

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... become -- --- OKAY, so there IS a point to this entry! Here it is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... applying early is a great way to show the admissions office that you ... get a second chance, there isn't an advantage to applying early. If

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... Race. Did you use to have a Big Wheel? You know, the plastic tricycle ... lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... students booked a tour to the nearby gorge Cajón del Maipo, a pristine

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a ... students to Mechanical Engineering (ME) through hands-on classes (taught by
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  but I tried to connect with him a bit since I already knew that I was going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... the single bed by the window by putting my sleeping bag on it prior to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a ... makes for a solid resume. Three. A few days ago, one of my friends who ... together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  ends of my t-shirt to create a makeshift basket. After checking to make ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week. There's generally a prompt, but the professor encourages us to go outside

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• 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 / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word ... secretious (for a very negative scretious). Feel free to invent your own (and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  related to him? (I think this is a hard question. Maybe I am wrong.) Adam ... I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... 're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  —e.g. making it to a part of a problem that I couldn’t reach last time, even if ... this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and ... , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  're applying to, but fortunately, the deadlines and requirements vary by country ... I persuaded to come to Mexico as well. As a digressionary piece of ... missed the deadline by just a little bit, you should still communicate with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016