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  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  colleges and universities to join us in demystifying the admissions process ... some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  be a significant part of this community. While entering college/MIT at ... After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent ... colleges as at MIT, but each year we do admit, after careful review, a number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... showcase some MIT-related products that are for sale. All of these are real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  not a good idea to staple any part of your college application, actually. Many colleges scan additional sheets of paper that come in, and staples ... application was strong enough in terms of academic merit to get into the college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  Congratulations, universe. You've managed to put me into another ... next generation e-commerce startup. In stealth mode." By October many of ... with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... university where you would like to study, I say "Go ahead." I'm a fan of the ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your school that you can take on yourself; classes offered at local colleges or ... the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... dinner, some of us went to JP Licks for some ice cream. (This summer I have eaten ice cream at least 5 days of every week. I have an addiction

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... supervision sections (like recitations) with other members of their college in

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  semester of a university college course so if anyone knows a way I can get ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... professional mindsets among students of underrepresented minority groups, with
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  other colleges and universities in voter participation with only about 38 ... about 19% of all college students. We want to make it easier to be a part ... tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017