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• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... courageous for applying, for taking the deep dive and demonstrating your vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time, but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... drive a couple of months back much less painful) and I found some fun

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I ... importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town since, yes, we do get applicants from this neck of the woods, and I like to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... juggling classes, DormCon, and other dorm obligations, I had a fair amount of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... dances. Recently, I've had dearth of dances: This semester's place permits ... these grand adventures. (and some of us, we take those times and post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... debate tournament in North America" -- by defeating McGill University in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  nitrogen ice cream at Random Hall. Now, I'm going to highlight some of the ... sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  Sox Hall-of-Famers (including Ted Williams before he got cryonically ... something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... , Alchemist, Simmons Hall, Stata Center[/caption] I get this urge to keep every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  "too busy" to spend time in the dining hall. I made the mistake of ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  Tetazoa, hall funds could be used to cover the cost of the pillow + cover ... six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the Festival itself. FoL was organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017