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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  supposed to, and there are even some people that already *know* how to ski or ... -turns or organic chemistry as other people and sometimes you might start to ... used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  geographical regions, students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds or ... I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my ... !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  (or even a C) prevent you from coming to MIT and being pre-med. Every ... or concerns. To prospective '16s: I hope you all loved CPW - and that I ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  trophies and science olympiad medals, none of which I have or have ever had ... essays or interviews, and that it holds more value than a medal. I also ... admissions director McGreggor Crowley) and answered questions from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  an make-up or extra assignment or not. And I won't know until tomorrow ...     Early morning on December 5th, 2012, my family and I ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

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

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  shedding material in their final days or collapsing into a black hole and ... research fit or advisor fit, and I saw friends go through that. For example ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  -sufficiency and confidence – in knowing that you have the skills, or at least the ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in Austin, Texas? The land of cowboy boots, sweltering heat, and a city that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  gasp and say "I got in? I got in!" I think I ran or jumped while shouting ... ask ourselves). "The acceptance rate is only a 5% or 6%" I've always ... 's okay, you have a 50/50 chance. It's either a yes or a no." Oversimplified

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology ... long to grade our homework."]fair[/annotation], and students can augment ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  own colonies, and becoming the iconic first president and, in many ways ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards, and something that stung deeply when it was denied him. It was also

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  join the livestream and ask. Otherwise just leave a note or a question in ... I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  any one of these people who I help or who helps me, helps and is helped ... building, friend group, class, or club to another, and we are all ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  . Every place I stopped, I’d spend a day or two, and by the time I left I ... So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  's very important to me, and like everyone, when I'm stressed or nervous, it ... end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019