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  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... going on at MIT today/tonight... check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first ... programs for parents as well as students; parents are more than welcome at ... hotline at (617) 258-6085. Nbot1 asked, "Since you like Hindi music, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  when I look at your names in these threads, I don't see scores or grades... at all. Which is why it's sad to see you comparing stats and trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admits525438383 Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are ... something like 2699). More later (off to dim sum at China Pearl!)...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  for introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an Advanced ... education back at MIT, and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a ... views forever (looking at you, Music Building; also MIT Nano is very cool

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you ... annual Boston tree lighting across the river at the Boston Commons. I ... myself ice skating and get violently angry at how bad I am. [carousel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  at teaching, are very kind and I have been enjoying all my classes so ... about gravitational waves that Prof. H appears in at the very end, which ... I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the ... deep knowledge and his language translation research at Oxford University. Reading this book – imagining the young scholar working at a library similar

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -shaped buildings arranged at odd angles between [annotation note="where large ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what ... other at all. (Even with the door open, the sound you can hear in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ="attachment_101809" align="alignright" width="190"] We got up at about 5 am to drive to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  life culture at MIT. Each booth will have club members there, so you have ... Internship Program through one of the undergraduates at a Course 17 booth ... meeting new people and asking questions instead. You'd be surprised at how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... the second! And I guess white and purple glass expand at different rates

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  glance down at the ring and am reminded of some wonderful memories I’ve had at these places.   two Right after school ended this past ... and professors at airports, restaurants, and other public spaces. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... grab food around campus, and I spent way too much of that funding at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  This past month has been my first IAP spent entirely at MIT. IAP is ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... called Praat. I look at things that look like this: Once the class is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... came up with an answer: some people are very good at reassuring others

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022