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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so ... benefit or advantage in doing so, and you should feel at ease applying
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire application, which is what we do during our admissions committee selection
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... to do just that (some questions I have replied to directly and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... session in freshman fall, he read us wild geese by mary oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️​ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you ... essays? [annotation note='i knew he was already doing misti for iap (our ... summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  ). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  with: Do you mostly listen to the same artists over and over (and over ... : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing ... about doing next, because there's always something to do next. here's two ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... fully aware of the nature of the world can do that. but once you realize ... first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• 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, but they didn’t really know what I should do either, because they knew ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working ... this past year. And wow, have I grown. What have I been doing? So many ... that prevented me from doing this during the semester, admittedly; it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  come next. So, I've just been... doing what I can. Getting through each ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... version is that I'm still going strong. My sourdough starter is doing very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... hidden gems around here. I won't spoil anything, but I do recommend

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  to it, although the learning curve was pretty steep and i had to do two ... i do say so myself[/caption] here's an animated version of it because ... love to do a thesis on final fantasy 7 (somehow). reading cracking the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  . However, my first real research experience (I never even knew doing ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017