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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get ... west and play to the east. After classes, you could head back to your ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY ... 1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later ... attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  commit to MIT.  Since Kenneth grew up surrounded by Black Greek culture ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... quick to introduce and connect with each other, so not only do you get to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  song) but listen deeply. Close your eyes and let it move you. Then get to ... Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  is near and dear to my heart. You're right, there isn't any particular ... all four grades were to be housed side-by-side. The result was an ... . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... major (Course 5), you're going to learn about molecules. What they look ... to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  full class). You get graded according to MIT policies and receive credit ... , interesting. I get to stand in people jams in stairwells and shudder at the ... . Forever. I get to stride proudly down the well-polished hallways with my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... D students/post-docs so I’m again the youngin’. I’ve been able to get to know a ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... shape. It’s 1 hour until instructors will be coming by to examine

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to get good grades and SAT scores, you can pour your heart into your

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... recommendation are vital. It's a great idea to chat with your recommenders and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university ... students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... most important change while you're here. You're used to being right

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  with other people. You stop defining yourself by your grades and start to ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010