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Blog / Personal Travel
Spring Break! A little guessing game.
I have to travel east from Boston to get there. ... At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going -
Blog / MIT Life
Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!
is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life -
Blog / About Decisions
Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET
[email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to ... choices that you get to make! ... , March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply -
Blog / Admissions
The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!
-258-8304. Please be patient, as materials take a day or two to process. Now, to get ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students. Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions -
FAQ / First-year application
I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?
would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common -
Blog / Admissions
Transfer Decisions to be Released Today
applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We ... prepared to be part of an dynamic MIT community next fall. -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.
I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... secretly wanted to do this. ...get special seats at fractal Planetarium ... hotsprings, and even climb up rocks to get there.. I learned that crutches -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept
-down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all -
Blog / Academics & Research
An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.
word for it, you will extremely appreciate it. It is so easy to get ... school year’s resolution to get eight hours of sleep. Cheers to the school ... On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..
Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don -
FAQ / First-year application
Do students apply to a specific major?
Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice -
Blog / MIT Life
Photojournalism and answers to some questions
Morgan Sheng's lab in the Picower Center. I didn't get to see much of the ... excellent, and slightly less difficult to get into. Basically, you want to go ... go to every conference they can get their hands on, so it wouldn -
Blog / Classes
Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?
whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... Calculus I 3.091 = Intro to Solid-State Chemistry 21M.011 = Intro to Western -
Blog / Admissions
A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.
Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... together. So when you visit, you're going to get out of my way when I -
Blog / People & Identities
if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny
_hidden]every time i get an email from you my heart skips a beat how i wish you would say those three little words three little words to change my life -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications ... room is well lit and good sound system... but dogs can get to me easily ... table... but dogs can still get to me lol. Last 3 years all I had was cat -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues
the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me ... asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece -
Blog / Classes
to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall
sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To ... paper and meet with someone in the WCC to get feedback on what else to fix -
Blog / Admissions
Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…
classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college ... (understandably) you guys say "Look! You need X, Y, and Z to get into MIT!" To