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  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  promise the next post will be college essay-related, and I know you guys ... another bike, with which I imagine the other owner would not be too pleased ... post them in the blog, and it'd be like PostSecret, except it'd be Post

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  . Can't might be the wrong word--maybe won't. I struggle a lot with ... maybe it would just be something along the lines of taking more time to ... experience by the end of this and I'll have four. And we'll be in such vastly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  Nerdy on YouTube, or maybe you'll be just sitting around the table with ... . Hopefully Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer John Harbison will be really tired ... "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  of it will probably be cut for time but this is the amount of detail I ... though it'll probably be a bit different during the performance for any ... . Sometimes for the worse. Take of that what you will. In any case, the rest of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  will write the CNC code for you, upload that code to a CNC machine, then ... showed above at LMP, are able to be operated manually.) The cool thing ... shops tend to be a bit messier than the academic shops, for example. These

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  particularly one who will be the first in his family to attend college full time ... the tests' five-point scale. His take-away: Don't be a grade ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  ="1000"] “[This painting] looks at how multiple things can be true at the ... exploring what may be the most profound disruptions to our sense of it: the ... mode of being that exists in the tension between dissociation and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  the steam will cook the dumplings evenly other people like boiling ... until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be ... first destination would be Souq Waqif, a Qatari marketplace. On the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  be able to appreciate Carmen without the promise of joining the ... seeing Carmen. The director was Jay Scheib, who also happens to be the ... The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  electricity and the job can be better accomplished by hand washing ... metaphorically), who will kiss it and make it all feel better? The MIT Medical ... sheets, they will be 5'' too short -- what those few inches gets you I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  be, will never win me an Oscar even if I'm partially Al Gore. 2 ... , but I'm willing to bet that most of the movies I've slept through were ... Sara was going to be non-relativistically late, so I started shooting the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  , which I will not link here. The reason it's so disturbing is beause it ... Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... to the calm Porter Square. I highly recommend going—you’ll be shocked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this: academic and co-curricular awards will usually be "scholastic." Extracurricular awards will usually be "non-scholastic." However, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  busy. “There’ll only be more of that as the semester continues,” he says ... ’re coming from MIT. The same side as the dome. You’ll be facing the traffic ... hopefully many more—that many of the feelings I have right now are going to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  will look at and think that the professor wrote them in Romanian or ... that weekend and still be looking at an all-nighter the night before that ... are ready to be gone right now, you will appreciate whatever time you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  legislation being passed against people like me, I know there will always be the ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... being” What pulls you out of bed in the morning? “My 9:30 am class. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  the semester am-I-right?”, then I will happily listen and give the ... time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  such a valuable experience. Now The F-Word will allows us to be in the ... is telling you that the feeling is good, comMIT. The Institute will be ... probably help host. It would be extremely awkward for the prefrosh to sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018