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FAQ / Transfer
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Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…
Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay -
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Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?
average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage -
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Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!
down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
; who will pursue their own dreams.” Graduating college--or high school ... great fondness for Caltech, and places like Olin College or Harvey Mudd. I ... easy feat. As a high school student, I thought that graduating college -
Blog / How to Human
My winter break so far take a break
at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the ... able to just sit down and talk about my college experience to someone who ... degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series -
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What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…
. Freshman year of college I wanted to never have to pick a major. Sophomore year of college I "wanted" to work in robotics, because they make you pick something eventually. Junior year of college I wanted to be a -
Blog / Admissions
Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again
an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... yourself. 2. Be prepared. In my previous blog post, I offered a few pointers ... - I wore hoodies too to my own college interviews :P but just know this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay
degree specializing in Islamic architecture, research labs in experimental ... , because not all programs count. For example, MIT's undergrad degree is ... , when it was offered under a different course number (4.s00), so when she -
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Hosed life the last few weeks
-30 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill on the first few nights. To reiterate, it was m-i-n-u-s t-h-i-r-t-y d-e-g-r-e-e-s F ... history buff and this class is only offered in the spring -- super excited -
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Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
point I was roped into a photo and offered help getting back to Emei… so ... Scholarships to cover students who enroll in Chinese universities for degree or non-degree programs. I'll be enrolling at Peking University, and as the -
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Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.
figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees -
FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?
Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first -
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August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.
that is possible. Most students take the most rigorous version offered of ... , and if possible have your college counselor also note this on the ... , yet your passion is in exercise science/kinesiology (which isn't offered -
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8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21
deeper into the possible opportunities a program like MISTI could offer ... opportunity that SA has to offer. They are a constant motivation for the nation ... just trying to decide where you want to apply for college in the years to -
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Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.
the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices -
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A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."
MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As ... philosophical issues and solutions for surviving the college decision process. In -
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Is This All? how do i live without regret?
I often fear that college is some big practical joke everyone is ... college admissions blogs. Someone who didn't make use of her MIT education ... thoughts came flooding back to me in college. I sit here now, almost 10 -
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Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.
Jobs Paid Notetaker - A paid notetaker position was offered for both 6 ... is a pretty good opportunity when it gets offered, and it’s typically more likely to be offered for larger classes like 191 and 200, since the