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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  . So I have this folder, right? Royal blue, made out of thick 8-by-11 ... slipped one by one, creating a heartbreaking mess in the middle of the ... first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... classes. This was very much supported by the physics and CS classes I took ... classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Inspired by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song Now this is the ... advice to all of you through your college application and search processes ... I spent most of my days Chillin’ out maxin’ taking life real slow Just

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the ... the design process with introductions, a lot of questioning, and very

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  . For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  previous lack of doing things by doing all the things. Thing #1: software ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  began to make such an awesome toy. Well, we began the design process by ... -aided design program. After Banks, one of my teammates, spent an incredible amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they ... for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... , thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  This blog post is by Mike W. ‘19, epic speed integrator and Random ... problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  cost of both essentials (toiletries, clothes, dorm stuff, etc.)--split by ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  Hello, MIT Class of 2016! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... register for CPW by Thursday, April 5, or when your travel plans are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  should you should click the final "submit" button of your online ... to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process ... fully staffed over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• 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

  

  further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of ... , the short of all that is that I knew what I was getting into by applying

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... to explain that they needed some maps for a puzzle. This sort of frantic searching for resources will be pretty common this weekend. Friday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008