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  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers ... , please be sure to include your name, date of birth, your instrument, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any possibility that there might be some cons to the pros - to me, MIT was perfect

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011 ... ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we’re just trying to help! I am really glad to have been able to answer some of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take ... insight, wisdom, humor, patience and dedication. Much to my surprise this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to another district with more opportunities; some will send the student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway. My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don ... back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to actually follow the form or modify the form to our liking.  1. i did not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  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 school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... Harvard, and me :) I'm really excited to be working with this group this ... to research that I like a lot. At any given time, there are multiple

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... -- most upperclassmen are probably still trying to erase memories of their ... be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... principal," my mom muttered under her breath. She turned to me. "You let me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020