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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  selection process has begun. Does that mean that everything else, including ... grades may take longer to process in some school systems this may take ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  you can reduce the amount of pain other people inflict on you by ... + a lot of work and she divorced me because i left dishes by the sink ... ’t about communication failures was a long exposition written by two of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  that way? What did the process even look like? By the time September 4th ... one. I have friends by my side who I can trust, in matters of health and ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  a great base for a lot of things! I switch it up by using different ... Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  of soup cans and baking supplies and pass by piles of tomatoes and ... process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been ... ! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  6 students go through an interview process in the fall of their junior ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... bashed in by the Big Rock Tribe." Thus begins a wonderful book by Dave

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... !). Eventually, the portal will include all kinds of cool things like CPW ... acceptance, Overnight Visit form, and of course, your MIT Reply Form. 653

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT ... day. So when I'm reading, I'm feeling guilty about the other parts of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  I know folks love to see the numbers, so we've updated the Freshman Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012 ... For the MIT class of 2012 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are ... narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is ... calls. Many of us who read applications are taking a little break and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  entries between now and the end of the early action process, I plan to ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... , and could only admit ~1600 students. But most of the students to whom we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  as we would the official scores. At the end of the process we will make ... nominations go, you're probably nominated by one of your teachers, and we look ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  lunch by yourself on top of the school bleachers and wonder about life ... being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  ? First, I'm in the process of setting up an admissions blog server that ... It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  8”×8”(ish) area of the board by making “lines” of toothpaste that are separated by an inch. The amount of area you cover will vary, and should ... ’ve noticed that on my own whiteboard, this process causes some colors of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  controlled by a series of square waves. A square wave of a certain timing is ... confidently say that everyone here is good at persevering, by the nature of how ... I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023