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  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the organic processes of  both scientific and personal discovery. ... a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First ... 't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  talks about it, I start to think of the processes and systems she'll need ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  -2-6 Mechanisms by which the amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determines ... favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing ... Hey Everyone -   Alot of questions and stress about

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  passionate about a process you but so much of yourself into.  So when the ... to be judged by an anonymous panel only to be rejected. The process can ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• 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 / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  greeted by a wall of sound. The sheer enormity of Premiere kind of hit me ... Premiere by Shuli J. ‘22, MEng ‘23  ★ 7 Rings by Afeefah K. ‘21  ★ Class of 2020 Ring Delivery by Danny and Allan G. ‘20 ★ Class of 2020 Ring

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  class really lets you take charge of how you process the material, and ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• 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 / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... problems, all of which combined is a very exhausting process. And we didn ... the characters with hard shadows. It’s made by some of the people that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... waivers must be requested by December 29 Can I submit multiple portfolios of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• 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 / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

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

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  American students navigate the college process, and he had been shocked by ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012