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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students ... evaluated in context. "In my country (Kenya) students who sat for the ... . One of the questions on the app. asks, "What do you do for fun?" and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  achievements, it is responsible for the Book Exchange, the Ride Board, and the Big Screw charity fundraiser. For some reason, MIT's chapter has drawn ... . Seuss book Mr. Brown Can Moo, for NBP's braille literacy program for blind

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... less hectic) season, but it allows some time for deep thinking about what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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  Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... is moving quickly! All of this is good news for those of you excited ... limitations be seen in negative while considering me for the admissions?" The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  you're not interested. but for this post in particular, i think it ... than you have to. and if that is you, you are incredibly valid for ... , with stories just like mine. But I’m writing this anyway, if only for the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  Directory Introduction Is product management right for me? The ... to give people a primer and look into what it's like to prep for these ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  time. Each day was scheduled for "two" lectures, one given by Alexander ... for years. like they really just blurt out questions no filter no hand ... material would have solidified my understanding more. For example, they went

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling ... November 15th.   5/1/23 A poster for the Spring '23 Rambax show. I ... looking for housing in New York over the summer for his internship, so I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... up the presentation, there was a part of me that ached for that same ... around with the idea of being a veterinarian, having a passion for animal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I ... the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... notebook, and she greets me good morning too. I work on a problem set for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... us lmao"]quite a reputation.[/annotation] BC is known for its floors ... that we were ever good at hockey...we’ve been in the D-D+ league for IM

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  don’t rEaLly regret it—it helped hype me up for everything to come ... that East Campus runs for the prefrosh, which probably sounds a lot ... staying for the weekend, before RUNNING to the Course 15 Luncheon. I then

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  two. We were in the same project group for DEECS, the former Course 6 FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  clothes for years, had the same hairstyle that I had had when I was just a ... . Before I left home for Boston, my parents asked me the million dollar ... . It just meant now, instead of waiting for things to happen to me, I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... just a bit more time, but for the most part, I had figured out how the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... dining understanding (that's a story for a later entry, or for Laura to ... know about dining (for now!). There are six main options for getting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009