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  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  short answer essay questions. Remember that there is no rush to get ... up well: But as more students each year seek to get the earliest ... can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and projects I care about. But that attitude has drawbacks, too - sometimes I get ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  get to choose. My relatives are spread out across the world and the love ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , and you get to experience awesome things down the road. I think the ... method to run properly when you’re not satisfying its preconditions. If ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  administrative things to get done, so we were pretty pleased with ourselves. The ... again to the MassArt registration office to turn in your new form, get it ... registration office (and get greeted “Oh hello again.”) to turn in a copy of your

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... ). Okay, let’s rewind to why I REALLY wanted to intern with Google and ... out how to get UROPs. I was seated at one of the café spaces at Stata

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have ... someone *cough* me *cough* was to get a 650 on MathIIc on his best sitting ... trying to get that score up if you can, but one score will not keep you out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  students from an underachieving high school to getting into Tokyo University ... being able to get into ANY college. It was not so fun. (you know, Asian ... Square to New House (well, more accurately, MacGregor*, but close enough

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... you choose to get a PhD, begin when you are 19 2. Be distantly related ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... chatted with another customer while waiting for him to get back.    ... cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets ... we needed to catch to get to iRobot. But then we couldn't find the bus ... time to get to the hotel. By the time we arrived at HQ, we were an hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... freshman seminar; we go to cool places like Google and MIT Open Learning and ... 's applied to real-world problems. also, we get free dinner before every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and ... is nice. Also, I love that we get to work in groups since I haven ... suuuuper chill—you basically get to eat Chinese snacks and learn about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... of business", meaning that you get your stuff done when it needs to be ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a ... admissions process to switch to a domestic applicant if I get my green card

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I ... getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... specific. It was literature themed, so I knew I had to get it when I saw the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... high school to college is to learn that hardwork doesn’t end with getting ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... you’ve just spent hours curating. don’t get too attached to them. ... endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022