, competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel
We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a
out to his family. Here's his story.
A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It
all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com ... afterwards.
My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself
started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a last hurrah, my final journey into the world as a child. I took this ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever
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without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a ... enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at
through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... more chances to experience a dorm's culture and style before choosing a
In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit.
In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on
This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light
readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and ... to notice.
This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my
Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways ... been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot
It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it.
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High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched
’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... ago, [annotation note = "It feels like we did this a year ago..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a
around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going
anxiety.
In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness
we have many tote bags. our freindos have commented on our many tote bags. they have even called us suburban moms. we don't disagree. we made a meme with them - karen c.'20, katherine c. '19, nia m. '20
On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... speakers from our Professor:
“He put this field on a strong footing…”
“One
water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... plain, poured hot from a pitcher into a small ceramic bowl. My brother ... in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up