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  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  way through a ropes course. Learn to paint. Roll your own sushi. Wear ... weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... , which I also wrote about. You upgrade a slot machine to make rent payments

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited ... where you go) and to keep your eye on Matt's and Ben's blog for more info ... about how it's not so bad getting rejected from your first choice school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... journey. We do our best to make it worth your while, including staying after ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  think I was more successful at not getting overly stressed by PSETs and ... , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... for my classes. Coursework (im)permanence. Hopefully by writing this, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  by Google APM (final round) Rejected by IBM PM (didn't get passed ... search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by ... rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no ... for when I do make good things. Independent Living Groups In addition to ... are amazing and if you're on the fence about coming to MIT because you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  thing, you're talking to someone who loves sleep. Sleep and food are two ... it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and then planning to get a PhD. Or is it that your going directly from a ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... comfortable place to be. Pro tip: ATTEND YOUR PROFESSOR'S OFFICE HOURS. DO IT ... referred to as J-Lab, because it's usually taken by physics majors in their

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  my friends needed to add up six big numbers and divide by four (don ... test. Brief dinner, delivered to my room by my very kind boyfriend. More ... was soothing to get outside - to talk with an old friend, to do things

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... 2010s cypherpunk movement, learning to program by contributing open ... million websites by launching Let’s Encrypt, finding a vulnerability that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  officer to get a more official opinion! If you're interested in learning ... doesn't love nerds?) but if you're miserable and struggling to keep up ... available to you; you mentioned that you're taking all the honors, accelerated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will ... 't get into Harvard supposed to get into Minerva? Even the most cynical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  effectiveness of your teammates. I’ve found it’s a lot easier to put in my best ... -2016 season, feel free to get in touch with our assistant coach, Kayleigh Durm ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to get an MD ... ) Formality and traditions At MIT, you’re likely to see people taking exams in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Terence '13 Christy '13 Project STEEM alumni accepted to MIT this fall By ... material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... -income students get into top-tier colleges. Paul credits some of his success to O

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  get you in. "Another issue is related to interviewing in India.Here in ... conductors can barely remember people by the end of the day. "I also talked to ... good time to start scheduling your interview. It is definitely a good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005