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• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... graduate school, and there are a million questions running through my head, but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... home. We have a varied group with one hailing from Alaska and another

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I've often wondered if people were ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at some point!), so I'll kill a little time by answering them. What's the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone through a bacterial respiratory infection (started before then, peaked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap ... Press has a nice story about "gap years" that has been picked up by news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... after pulling an all-nighter on a Boeing 757. Way too many dangerous chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what ... However, the good news is that it should be a fairly eventful weekend; MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... this kind of stuff, I wanted to appreciate hardware. It helped that a ... lecture wondering, what even is a microcontroller (or microcomputer)? When

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them ... ’m amputating a precious, home-grown limb. I tell myself that I’ll come back to them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an ... vestiges of 1900s industrial Cambridge. The image is vivid: a placid fall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... colder and hungrier) and a whole host of possibilities are available that ... ="The MIT Outing Club runs a winter school every IAP where people go on lots

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

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023