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

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... because this class is really relaxed – it’s just not possible for my stress

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  , Bulgaria Class of 1894 (originally Class of 1893) Candidate for an Advanced ... Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career ... , Committee on Scholarships recommended him “for the favorable consideration of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last year when I got my first B. If it weren't for that B, I would have been ... differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for ... named after MIT!) Inertial guidance systems for aircraft RSA ... '36 The Human Genome Project, for which MIT's Whitehead Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... (Harvard MD) Chemical engineer for ExxonMobil Computer engineer at Akamai

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds ... ’t think I could make. I asked Coach Conti what advice he has for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class ... , or I revise for an ASE, or I’m walking over to the other side of campus ... this mess of overcommitment. Here’s another thing that’s new. For the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , some “friend turnover” is unavoidable. We’re all here for a limited ... . Meet your high school friends over break. Oh, and brace yourself for an ... , for example, 10am biology lectures with Erik Lander, the Biology God

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014