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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  Applying to things doesn't end after you come to MIT, and waiting doesn't either. Right now, you might be waiting to find out if you got ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... Bostonians use to ride the T."]back to campus[/annotation]. I was surprised when I finally got back to my dorm. My friends who stayed at MIT over the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... disappointment, and headed back to MacGregor. Usually when I go to the market I ... new store, I took a different street back to my dorm. [caption id

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you ... here.  Stovetops don't have knobs to control the gas, instead they're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  pictures ranging from snapchat level fancy to professional photographer level ... him haha jk). No, it’s because as a member of RingComm he had to be at ... Ring Delivery! This first one is a 3E tradition - to take a fancy picture

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to ... overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and ... my cereal and stuff and head down to the Country Kitchen at Next to eat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be more frequent ^^”). What I actually want to talk about today is really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Thank you to everyone who applied. Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists ... your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said ... a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... essay, pset style questions, or past exam problems. The goal is to finish ... have time to grade it and provide feedback. What actually happens in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The ... yet – you need to read some important info below. What is it?  The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are ... defined. Almost all my colleagues are older than me - I love to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... humble observations about the Institvte! And yet I have things I want to ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011