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  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... written and well-thought out, and they tie together all the different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that ... 't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.) The point is that they ... weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  50-50 with regards to if they had or not). CPW was the first admitted ... , don't feel the need to force yourself to enjoy it. CPW is a great time (as is the rest of undergrad) to learn more about yourself, and you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or ... below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... coursework through programs like the AP, IB, PSEO, EPGY, and many more alphabet ... in high school, for your sake and ours. That said, MIT does not
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association (SUMA), which is for students interested (not ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... conversations with people is definitely something that I'll need to work on in the ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... at the end. 8 Number of teams the class is divided into. 24.9 The ... off the night with a literal *BANG*. Their product, Manta, is a man

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... transferring. College is a blur of events that’ll leave you wondering where the ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  astronomy. As a kid, I had a little poster that said, “The Sky is not the ... subs, rest assured, this is not the case. I was originally interested in ... -edged sword. One side of this sword is that the large scope of courses you can

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  outreach. The purpose of public outreach is not to just emerge from our labs ... science, and not just astronomy. After we marveled that all of the elements ... knowledge, then retreat again. The goal is sustained engagement with a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  is sooner. Also, when you fill out your CPW registration form, give us ... CPW experience as good as possible. Finally, please complete the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  for the admitted students, waitlisted students, and the not admitted ... ://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and password that you ... or snail mail, as we do not plan to send out admissions decisions in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home ... academic program that got you into MIT in the first place. The sky is the ... in your life. So what’s the rush? It’s not like you wouldn’t be going

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... education never had -- it's not about the grades, it's about what you learn in class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know ... was not true anymore). Asia explored the different corners of campus ... , WISE allowed her to experience MIT through the lens of a minority and not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020