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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue ... and its surrounding forest into a state reservation, complete with designated hiking trails, marked-off beaches, restrooms, vending machines, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  has been long, but productive. I had an exam, 3 psets, and other ... sunshine and the expansive stretches of beaches and boardwalks. I went to ... as amazing. I got to watch the sun set on the beach without a worry in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of California, Irvine: 2.86 lbs San Jose State University: 2.04 lbs University ... super-friendly atmosphere, and we got into a lot of long conversations

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  Bucknell University, I envisioned news clippings about horrendous hazing ... New Hampshire beaches. Many non affiliated students view rush as a waste ... . Rush events are fake. But rush is meant to introduce you to every greek

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  ='MLK-inspired: “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice ... funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... realizing the status of my mental state: I was super surprised to find that I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  applying through QuestBridge not too long ago. He was volunteering at the ... than a state school, and of course a talk by Questbridge Co-founder Dr ... one long day later, we had one last night to explore New Haven with the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  ... Went to Montreal for a weekend to visit friends at McGill University ... from Boston if you would like to go on a long weekend trip. It's only one ... fastest pace of life in the United States? Even beating out New York City

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... , the long awaited “tube,” and the holiday cards. But some ... schedule of events was 87 pages long! The aesthetics of MIT do grow on you

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing ... they weren’t).']long, challenging final exams that students must pass ... engineering. For example, an economics degree at MIT requires at least one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  least 2 different states (probably more) have not received their tubes. Please don't ask me to identify the states; I wouldn't feel right doing so without knowing *all* the states that are still owed tubes. If I've been

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake ... home, and I’m ok with that. I’m glad it’s lasted this long, though. I ... 've been wondering just how long I will last. I have a turkey at home named

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  or fall-semester finals are also graded P/NR. This means that as long ... as many classes as I could. The opportunity to get out of a semester-long ... frequent state of confusion and dismay, which culminated in me not passing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Weekend CPW and marathon volunteering

  

  ouch, my last CPW!  

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  course...)  Startups are hard. I worked long hours, and while in China ... up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  brother or grandma want you to go to X University, so while you may think ... University, and if it’s not a good fit, those four years are going to be ... go to other universities. The magic of the Internet, cheap airfare, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi ... T and talking trash about northern California weather. (65 degrees ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities ... artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... :45: Dexter?! Lol. 3:00 to 3:30: The guy is from Donghai University, Chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... .091 (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry), my love for chemistry was reignited and I ... M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  , really long tunnel. It felt endless. After a groggy night of half ... a long yet important pause, said “life’s all just a game anyways ... long it would take us to get from A to B. Even if we practiced biking

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024