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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that ... property to put off writing about last semester even longer in favor of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  ’t require avoiding addressing how the Institute pushes a culture of stress and ... not graduate?  Freshman spring was the first period of crisis. I had ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7 ... . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  does research on the sun at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ... are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate ... communication talents with him to the policy world of Washington D.C. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  semester grades since the semester does not end until the end of January ... 've made good use of the essays. ------------------------------------- Merudh ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  about innovative and creative ways to address some of the problems facing ... funded by the Berwick Institute. One of the organizers of the project is an ... they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  interest. The federal student loan programs are a good method of financing ... child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  send in something additional, address the idea of "the match" in some way ... blog any day of the week if you're going to add such good, thoughtful ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I ... As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  section 9 of the part 2, or do you think that that does not fit the prompt ... want both your address and the address of your school. The forms may be ... your Part 2 (thank you for doing this in advance of the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

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• 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 this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  say so myself. As part of the Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT), I went ... race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... official start of the race, around 1am. I didn’t feel the event would get the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  stressed out of your mind?  The deans in this office are good to touch base ... orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  difficult to differentiate the good ones from thousands of similar essays? It ... , such as submitting an essay that does not actually address the question ... can. "anonymous" wrote, "Since we're kind of on the topic, how does MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  ="2546"] 7/7 is pretty good! (also rare)[/caption] At the end of each ... tentative schedule vs the serene and supremely useful firehose search filters" /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  overview of the topic, but I feel the 500 word version does it more justice ... quarter of the year does not end until this Friday, and teachers do not have ... alright if I mail a hard copy of materials to MIT, or does the supplement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009