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See You Later
the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a -
Blog / Admissions
Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.
A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only -
FAQ / Interview
What is the interview process?
. Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is -
Blog / Academics & Research
Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."
DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too -
Blog / Admissions
The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!
're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a -
Blog / Uncategorized
The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!
students apply to MIT because of its reputation, and I strongly believe a ... While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day -
Blog / IAP
Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…
live Mario Kart in the halls of Burton Conner, and why yes, that would be ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.
Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in -
Blog / Admissions
Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide
In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go! A bit of background information before we dive in ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the -
Blog / Athletics
How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process
hopefully some of the overall principles and advice can still apply! My ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all -
Blog / MIT Life
learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how
-is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of -
Blog / Blog Projects
what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)
representative of the rest of my blogs =D not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living ... "]rpm[/annotation] dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that -
Blog / Extracurriculars
the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do
One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with -
Blog / Academics & Research
Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.
(except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be -
Blog / Athletics
Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience
appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I -
Blog / Announcements
Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship
beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday. If you've applied to MIT this millennium, you probably interacted with Gisel, who was ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your -
Blog / Admissions
A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.
certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to ... overlapping section- we should be best friends. :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and -
Blog / Miscellaneous
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda
to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one -
Blog / Uncategorized
homecoming to a new school year and adventure
while they toured Boston. Every inch of that hall had a memory attached to ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help