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• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  you have created. You do not need to send in your research poster ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... ?" You do not need to have any scholastic distinctions to be admitted to

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

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when ... willing to bet this is what happened in your case. Transfer Student had a ... sent to the wrong address, does the entire application get discarded? If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  to being hosed again. There was so much I needed to do. Picking classes ... max throttle, trying to connect the dots and synthesize as much as I can ... to spend much time there. Somehow I ended up talking to companies and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  enjoyable. Together, they cost too much. I needed to relax; I needed to ... for IAP were to relax and cook. I needed time off, needed time for my own thoughts, needed time to breathe. I succeeded for some time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , you need to learn how to fall flat on your face. Despite the best ... figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  seemingly random PE requirement alongside everything, much to everyone ... undergrads must fulfill 8 "points" of PE. Transfer students need 4 points ... classes I absolutely need to take before I graduate: tennis and sailing

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  -mails from me. I had to switch Gmail accounts and transfer everything over ... I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  a morning exam does. Despite what my 9.01 Intro to Neuroscience ... someone until you can be alone. You will not be able to handle unlimited ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... part of this class, I was required to regularly read papers (once every

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... GIRs, I'd say no, that's not going to cover it. =) AP/IB/transfer credit ... need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  have a much better sense of what my laptop needs to handle. I actually ... . My setup is so much better now. When I need to make a PowerPoint for my ... much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  lines: To change any of the properties of your objects you need to ... handles (the pen tool guide talks about these). I'm going to make the dog ... Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I ... most familiar with or have a Bachelors in, does not necessarily have to ... (more or less all of them) you need to be able to understand and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .\n") def final(): finalthoughts = ["Do you need to know coding before coming ... ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee ... popular opinion amongst MIT students, I know, but I find it much easier to ... projects loom over me, it’ll be over. I just need to hang in until Spring

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  it what the deck needs right now? Does it work well with the cards you ... honestly, I admire the people who handle the logistics just as much, if not ... this to myself; I need to drop some classes. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our application, conduct need-blind admissions, and provide generous financial aid that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  low   Boston Rain Is hard to handle sans umbrella Boston Rain I ... Rain Copley to Park Street went fairly well Boston Rain I transfered to ... . Snow, you see, I could have handled. After all, snow isn't only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , there wasn’t much I could do now. Things were starting to spiral out of ... online readings for whatever I needed to finish my paper by Tuesday 2pm ... inane, time-wasting trivialities. Did I really need to watch that video

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  going to leave this as a comment to Mitra's question, "Does anyone know if ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007