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  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology ... ready to write up the results. Talking about lab reminds me that I need to ... engineering grad school admissions (both for you guys and for my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... dorm had free storage to rushed pack ups to running around helping people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so long: 9:30 AM: Wake up, particularly early because no class until 12 ... writing this just now I got up to clean my whiteboard, and then thought

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  vacuum is running and I want to burn up my savings on an apartment for ... little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  becoming a member of TT, I knew I was signing myself up for trauma ... quarantined together or have met up for the summer. It's great that we're still ... talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  running for too long, and your water bill goes up. Leave it to me I talk so ... : good maintainers can make up for bad design, but good design can never make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  side of the table, having done some 16-odd interviews for MIT these last ... Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  "]Can't I just suck it up for two more weeks, take the final, and be done ... are still lonely, as my friend group meets up for 8.01 and 18.02 and I ... the first place. I try to make up for my lack of knowledge with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  clearly bad ideas, whether it was climbing up an 18-story building for four ... since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... came up with all sorts of bad ideas that pushed our stomachs, hearts, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my ... in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple ... isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , would register up to four votes per second for MIT. I smell another poll ... ) ---------------------------------------------------------------   For a short amount of time the website was back up with a "fix ... 'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my ... auditorium. And just for you guys, I got some footage of his talk. Sorry in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and wake up a day later. You’re still tired. You’re always tired. You slept ... in the Stata Center. You go up the elevator. You’re in the wrong tower

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015