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• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... felt special. So, prefrosh, or anybody who ever plans on coming to ... listening to Tessie on my iPod and drinking a World Series edition of a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a ... currently on our campus who felt the same way before their dream became a
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the ... up the courage to do it, the EC courtyard is the place for you! We have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... something going on and articulate clearly what is it that you want to know ... 've been writing on this for so long that I assume you all know everything

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... entail? A timer. For example, a wash cycle generally takes 36 minutes to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  goes on. Personally I decided to go back MIT for 2 weeks and then going ... only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT's semesters. Many of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some additional information on our QuestBridge applicants. For QuestBridge Finalists ... Bridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but you must let us know in
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Take it from me: for any school, simply being on campus is a great way to ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... dad, for his part, was always willing to just sit down and talk when I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  , which I am, to some extent, quite grateful for, considering I couldn't fit ... class was when our TA last Wednesday asked for feedback on the problem set ... I, I was drawn to the class by the lab component (three hours on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  to med school. There wasn't any particular reason for this...I had ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or ... bed for them and wants them. Moving to a different hall or entry: A

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that ... MIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to submit their reports has not yet arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish ... for MIT? Reason for discontinuation: Not sure, but MIT should pay to ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  , through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start ... to having more freedom to cook for myself in future semesters ... , though, for warmer weather, though that fencing on the street side of it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... 's Going On" (many thanks to my dad) ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... for you to be able to predict which one is “best.” You narrow things ... good to specialize. As a grad student, I'm responsible for every detail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016