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Apply / First-year applicants
Early vs Regular
is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two -
Discover / About MIT
Basic facts
note='Source: MIT Facts']Campus[/annotation] 168 acres (0.68 km2) in -
Discover / The MIT education
Majors & minors
these schools offers degrees in their courses of study, as well as minors -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Speaking in MITese A language all our own.
context, used to indicate a family of multiple similar subjects, varying in ... .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean -
Blog / Academics & Research
Axes of Confusion ????
factors. Points that land in the red area indicate we should realllyyy drop course 6. Points that land in the green indicate we should reallyyy keep ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or -
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Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!
pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt
in appearance or actions, I chose to use “Butch Heroes” to indicate ... cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their -
Blog / About Decisions
Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity
great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one ... . In my experience, individuals from multiracial backgrounds resented -
Blog / Admissions
My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.
that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place -
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How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly
’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the -
Blog / Academics & Research
e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.
me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your -
Blog / About Decisions
WHY? for people who don't like "no"
one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... was rejected by every school, but then she got that fateful tube in the ... got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into -
Blog / Advice
how to sail against the wind on tacking
, to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
. I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era -
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Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure
somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus -
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A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs
falling in love."]is this just indicative of where i am in life ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... even formative moments, in some way, will vanish from my internal stores -
Blog / About Decisions
Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).
indication of how successful you will be in the future. Do not fixate only on ... final projects. My only exam was in 6.034 (artificial intelligence ... seriously. In particular, I wish I’d had that attitude against the dragon that -
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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
[Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... business endeavors that they were really interested in instead of enduring ... . Presented with a hypothetical situation in which 18-year-old Elizabeth and 22