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• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the images was captioned "ThinkGeek to the rescue:" ThinkGeek provides Pluto

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to those this week. But we've been instructed to clear everything from our

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an ... pretty much any other group of AZN's that managed to get ASA funding. There ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  . And, of course, you won't get to see all of the date-specific events ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... not getting where you wanted to go, because you were too afraid to ask ... In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten ... because I like taking my time to get out of bed. I've moved floors so I stop

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of ... waiting to be skyrocketed into fame as an arm model); my picture is second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly ... trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to ... to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by quite quickly. Unfortunately, when I got to MIT, the work continued but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my ... ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... …it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  pens, I might as well work for Livescribe and get paid to do it, right ... , somebody else paid, and all I had to do was show up at the airport and get on ... thought would take forever to get through. Not that I was concerned, there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re just not getting it? And you feel bad, because they keep trying even ... early this morning”.   It’s really difficult for me to process that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come ... your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  experience back home to students who might never get the chance to visit ... and guests! Ofc we had to get a group photo[/caption] Speaking to all of ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  any true ownership over a project. My dream job is one where I get to do ... science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022