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  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal ... ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I’ve found two short-term (and vaguely connected) jobs to fill these few weeks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... now after graduating from MIT. So today let me introduce you to Brian

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting ... fantastic Alumni to put together Admitted Student Gatherings to welcome you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... your applications for early action. Truly. I consider it a privilege to read your essays, to learn about your cultural heritage and family

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  MyMIT tracking.  Once we're up-to-date, we'll let you know, and send an email to those people we still need something from ... .  Feel free to ask questions here, if you have any! Sandy: If you were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  ’ve made it this far – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... th, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... Guide to help you when you start to fill out our application. If you haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  Hi Everyone, As you've now heard, Mr. Peterson is going offline to ... . So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time. Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I ... , here I am, experiencing what it's like to live some place else, some

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as far to suggest that I might try going there sometime (the horror

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual scheme and to each other: Maslab - Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  sweatpants. So many students are headed home :) I've decided to use this extra bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... passion for physics at MIT. He chose to study here at MIT, but that doesn ... musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011